Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Auden observed, the British murder mystery, with its accent on clever detection rather than violence, seems to provide an escape back into the Garden of Eden. There innocence and order are restored, and readers "may know love as love and not as the law." The Great Restorer is the godlike genius detective. Christie's own genius resided in a mind of intimidating clarity. She never allowed emotion or philosophical doubt to cloud her devious conceptions or hinder the icy logic of their untanglings. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a rich American...
...Cabinet relegated to the role of a rubber stamp. Attlee, along with a small group in the Defense Sub-Committee of the Cabinet, made the crucial (for Labor party politics) decision to develop British nuclear weapons without consulting or informing the rest of his government. Sir Anthony Eden (a Conservative) worked out plans for Suez without informing his Cabinet of them, much less getting their approval. In both cases the Cabinet Ministers were bound--by the Catch-22 called collective responsibility--to support decisions in which they had no part. Britain had moved from Bagehot's Cabinet government to what...
After reconnoitering cloud-covered Venus with eight separate unmanned spacecraft-three American and five Russian, including two Soviet landing vehicles-scientists are now certain that De Fontenelle's Eden is, in fact, more like Dante's Inferno. Its surface temperature is a hellish 900° F. Its atmosphere, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, is at least 90 times as thick as the earth's, producing crushing surface pressures of 1,500 Ibs. per sq. in. Its clouds are laden with sulfuric acid. Yet a major mystery remains: Why has a planet so like the earth in size...
Dartmouth continued its passing assault in the second stanza. QB Teevens connected with wide receiver Jim Marcella for 47 yards. The Green gainer set up a four yard TD flicker to halfback Jim Eden for a commanding 21-0 Dartmouth bulge at intermission...
Died. Guy Mollet, 69, Socialist Premier of France from January 1956 to June 1957; following a heart attack; in Paris. In 1956, Mollet collaborated with Britain's Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the British-French attack on the Suez Canal in coordination with an Israeli invasion of the Sinai from the east...