Word: chien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists are not much noted for a sense of humor, but there must have been at least a glimmer of a smile when they elected a former U.S. Air Force colonel as an alternate member of the party's Central Committee. The colonel in question is Dr. Chien Hsueh-shen, a product of M.I.T. and Caltech. Chien, who was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. during World War II, headed a missile-research team in Germany at war's end. In 1955, he was expelled from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made important contributions...
However, two fine shorts run the first forty-five minutes at the Brattle, and might alone be worth the price. Both are art-house standards, and worthily so. Luis Bunuel's first film, Un Chien Andalou (a 1928 collaboration with artist-entrepreneur Salvador Dali), will either fascinate or frustrate with its free-association stream of symbols. (If you get completely lost in these fifteen unusual minutes, just remember violence symbolizes sex, the dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most...
...regular forces. And their effectiveness cannot always be measured by a single night's work. Two days after the Prews had crashed the propaganda chief's funeral, nine frightened Viet Cong from the raided village, including the regional chief, turned themselves in to the government as Chien Hoi defectors...
...transports capable of carrying a 15-ton load 4,000 miles. Thus most major Asian cities-Tokyo, Manila, New Delhi, Bangkok, Rangoon and others-may well find themselves within Red Chinese atomic range some time early in 1965. Peking, moreover, has launched a missile program guided by Chien Hsueh-shen, 52, a 1938 Caltech Ph.D. grad and jet-propulsion specialist. Chien was chief of the rocket section of the U.S. Scientific Commission on National Defense during World War II. In 1950 he was caught trying to slip out of California, bound for Red China. He was finally permitted to leave...
...second person in the U.S. to own a registered Belgian Malinois, whose real name, le Malinois, chien de berger a poll court fauve charbonne, is the longest in dogdom. Apartment dwellers-or at least their neighbors-will favor the Basenji, a terrier-sized hunting dog once kept by the Egyptian pharaohs that never barks. But he whines, groans and gargles, and when happy makes a noise described as "a cross between a croon and a yodel." As for burglars-packs of Basenjis are used to hunt gorillas in their native Africa...