Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. A publishing duet, about the islands of Corfu and Rhodes, by the author of The Alexandria Quartet confirms his superlative gift as a travel writer who uses scenery to intensify personal feeling...
Arrested and jailed, Holzapfel slashed his wrists, nearly died in his, cell. Peel was also arrested on the charge of conspiring to kill his hired killer, but jumped bail and disappeared. The police trapped him in a Chattanooga hotel last week. Said Peel: "I was shocked and surprised." Said Sheriff Kirk: "The case has now been broken." But there was some doubt that it would ever be brought to trial. Holzapfel's taped account of the murders is inadmissible in court, and the bodies of the Chillingworths have never been found...
...months West German secret police had suspected that there was a security leak in the defense committee. Last week police agents trailed two suspected couriers to the Bonn Airport, seized the pair for questioning after one had booked passage to Vienna. In their luggage the police found a dry-cell battery and a tin of "Vasenol ointment." Inside the battery were microfilms of a secret, detailed West German defense budget and a secret list of all West German naval vessels. When a government agent tried to open the ointment, it blew up in his face; the tin had been booby...
...bleak cell at a Tokyo juvenile detention home one night last week, a mop-haired teenager mixed a palmful of tooth powder with a few drops of water and scrawled a message on the wall: "Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!'' Then Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, tore his bed sheet into strips, knotted them into a rope, stood up on a toilet bowl and hanged himself from the light fixture in the ceiling. Yamaguchi, who last month stabbed Socialist Chairman Inejiro Asanuma to death at a political rally, had lived...
Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. The laureate of the wine-dark sea turns his sun-bedazzled eye on the islands of Corfu and Rhodes. To Durrell the Greek landscape lastingly utters one commandment: Know thyself...