Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinpoint Precision. Coolness is still one of the man's most notable characteristics. Last week, as the Asian crisis bore down on him, Admiral Grant Sharp, now 58, well-decorated and as slender and hard as a torpedo (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), described his activities and explained...
Hong Kong's textile industry spun a tale of woe when the U.S. and other nations imposed embargoes on its low-cost cotton goods a few years ago. With acrimony and self-pity, it predicted dwindling sales, growing unemployment and financial disaster for the industry, which employs 41% of...
Looking like four errant Blue Boys, the lads hit their nimble stride in a script shrewdly slapped together by Scenarist Alun Owen and directed in racy "new cinema" style by Richard Lester. Scorning plot, Night affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary lives of its...
Building a Technology. To explore the moon at close hand with unmanned spacecraft is an incredibly ambitious project, far more difficult than sending a man on a few passive orbits around the earth. A Ranger spacecraft is all but alive; it maneuvers, it has eyes to watch the sun and...
The narrator in this picaresque novel of present-day Cape Cod is an itinerant chef named J. I. (for Judas Iscariot) LeBlanche. A red-haired giant in his 50s, he is engaging in his strength and directness, benevolently tyrannical in his kitchen, reluctantly restrained in his lechery. At first sampling...