Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talents of the canny poet King are as cool as his mile-high capital of Katmandu. He has not only managed to keep his landlocked, Wisconsin-size nation from being swallowed up by its giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce...
Olivier is malignantly and magnificently feral, dangerous precisely because he is a wounded animal clawing at the specter of death. One waits for the Olivier howl, and it comes-but not as the inhuman scream of the blinded Oedipus, or as his trumpet call to glory in Henry V: "God for Harry, England, and St. George!" In words charged with pain and hurtling toward frenzy, Olivier vengefully announces that he wants a divorce in order to "unite my destiny with that of a woman who together with devotion to her husband will also bring into this household youth...
...shows off his forensic marksmanship in a weekly TV debate called Firing Line, on which he confronts his adversaries with a polysyllabic vocabulary and an arsenal of intimidating grimaces. Does the occasion call for an eyebrow lifted in disdain, a mouth drawn down in disbelief, a popeyed leer of triumph at a point well scored? Buckley performs on cue. At a time when most TV performers play down to their audience, Buckley remains Buckley, and his program is all the more engaging...
...scroll is a series of commands to the people of Israel. Since nearly half of them deal with detailed instructions on the building and ritual maintenance of the temple, Yadin has tentatively named the document the "Temple Scroll." The minute specifications call for the construction of three courts in the form of concentric squares; the two outer courts must each have twelve gates, named for the twelve tribes of Israel. Curiously, it also requires that public toilets should be constructed 1,400 meters northwest of the temple-which, notes Yadin slyly, would situate the lavatories today somewhere near...
...five farm-equipment makers to face contract negotiations this year. And the United Steelworkers Union last week cranked up for contract talks soon to begin with can manufacturers by issuing a policy paper outlining a Ford-style settlement. For his part Reuther's next task is to call on General Motors* and Chrysler, who racked up impressive third-quarter figures while Ford was on the sidelines. Chrysler, which Reuther announced last week will be his next target, has been long pressed by a severe cost squeeze and will probably settle quickly. Powerful General Motors, however, may give Reuther...