Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five Red Demands. When Brigadier General Jose Nobre de Carvalho took over late last month as Macao's new Portuguese-appointed Governor, Macao's Communists demanded that the government 1) acknowledge responsibility for the Taipa incident, 2) punish a deputy police chief involved, 3) publicly burn all police truncheons, 4) promise an end to "attacks" on Macao's Chinese, and 5) compensate families of workmen injured during the incident itself...
...violating a 10 p.m. curfew dating back to 1939. As arrests increased 300%, grumbles soon grew to rumbles. Charging police brutality, the Strippies last month protested with two consecutive weekends of wild rioting; mobs of youths, at times numbering as many as 2,000, smashed store windows, tried to burn buses, and pelted police with rocks and bottles, bringing on 200 arrests. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors decided to get tougher, last week unanimously rescinded the "youth permits" of twelve of the Strip's clubs, thus stamping them off-limits to anybody under...
...oral contraceptives. Hiram Walker says, only half in jest, that it recovers "the hangover from whisky" -fusel oil, usually blamed for hangovers, can now be largely removed from whisky and sold to paint and perfume makers. Poultry processors, confronted with smothering stockpiles of chicken feathers that would not burn, came up with a new process that breaks down the feathers into a mealy, protein-rich substance. Today, many chickens are growing fat faster on the feathers of their predecessors...
...apartment house, it screams to a rubber-ripping stop and flings nine tiny men in tight black uniforms off its big red back. The men crash into a flat, turn drawers and closets inside out, carry off a heap of hidden books, whip out a handsome copper flamethrower, burn all the books to fine grey soot...
Truffaut's hero (Oskar Werner) is a member of the brigade, a pyromanic punk who sincerely believes that "books are just rubbish" and should be burned. After a hard day at the cultural crematorium, he cools off with tranquilizers, sits staring at the wall screen with his trank-tanked wife (Julie Christie), and sinks slowly into nothinkness. One day, riding home on the monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn...