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...greeted by his classmates as "a new disease," and during a field trip to the planetarium, a leather-jacketed roughneck slashes a tire on his car. "You read too many comic books." says Dean. They fight with knives. Dean wins. The boy challenges him to a "chickie run" -a dash to the edge of a cliff in two stolen cars; first man to jump out before the cars go over the brink is "chicken." Caught between folly and disgrace. Dean asks his father what to do. Father funks out. Dean makes the run. The other boy is killed...
Koestler, a writer with a happy facility of spouting forth on virtually any subject, has taken time from pre-occupations with love, the world's wars, and his next full-length literary production, to dash off a careful and perceptive analysis of "The Anatomy of Snobbery." His is an eminently successful execution of a faintly satirical, quasi-serious discussion which the authors of current Holiday articles would do well to read. Silone's contribution, clearly the most informal of the collection, takes the form of an interview. He remains confused about basic questions surrounding an earthquake tragedy in his native...
...Dash. To keep track of the seasons, the calendar makers had to have records, and this meant a system of written numbers. Of all these early systems, the most efficient was that of the Mayans, who used only three symbols-a dot (1), a dash (5), and an oval that could multiply each number 20 times. Meanwhile, other civilizations had other inventions. The Egyptians had to find ways to make a right angle so that the base of each pyramid would be an absolute square; they also had to find out how to measure land for taxes. Thus emerged their...
...plot itself is an almost over-simplified version of the boy-meets-girl story. Although a full blooded villain might have given the book an added dash of interest, it is a charming treatment of gentle ruffians, and, fittingly enough, gives the melodies the dominant role. "All Kinds of People," "Sweet Thursday," "All At Once You Love Her," and "The Man I Used To Be" are all in the best Rogers and Hammerstein tradition. Some of the catchy tunes include "The Tide Pool," "A Lopsided Bus" and "The Party That We're Gonna Have Tomorrow Night...
After a slam-bang 40,000-mile dash through 17 countries, Washington's Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, still a little breathless in her mink stole and red velvet cloche, reported to a gathering of local newshens: "The Far East is sizzling." Of her near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came...