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...presidential year of 1960, bagpipe-shaped West Virginia (pop. 1,976,000) is a political enigma. Through the generations between the Civil War (when West Virginia was amputated from Virginia) and the great Depression, the mountainous state was usually a Republican fastness. After 1928 it was Democratic-until 1956, when thousands of registered Democrats switched allegiance, and Dwight Eisenhower carried West Virginia back into Republican ranks. How West Virginia will vote at any given time is anybody's guess, and it is in that battleground state that Democratic Candidates Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy have entered into...
...protective capsules that enclose noxious germs-but hard, solid objects . . . it's useless to open them up . . we should find nothing." Gradually, the young man detects-or invents-complications; is Martereau a swindler? He forces subtleties on the unyielding surface of reality; an adulterer, perhaps? Having posed her enigma, the author of this excellently written novel disappointingly leaves it for the reader to solve...
...EVENING CONCERT. Bach, French suite no. 2; Elgar, Enigma variations; Schumann, Kinderscenen; Viotti, Violin concerto no. 22; Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasilieras...
...enigma of famed Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lingers on chiefly because he swallowed the key to the Oppenheimer case-his own character. One of the strangest, most mystifying glimpses of that character was furnished by the "Chevalier incident," which played a substantial part in the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 decision to lift Oppenheimer's security clearance. Now one of the principals in that incident has written a novel, and there is more than a hint from both author and publisher that the book will explain the Oppenheimer mystery. Because the Oppenheimer case, perhaps second only...
...Enigma with Cutlass. Just before World War II, the rock island of Manacle Shoal in the Caribbean is being tunneled to serve as an unsinkable ammunition ship. The labor force consists entirely of U.S. Negro enlisted men; directing them are three white officers. No one is under any illusion about the overhanging risk: a wrong move, a detonated shell, a rule-breaking smoke-and the whole lot of them could be blown up. Along with the danger come few compensations. For the Negroes, there is an occasional cockfight and beers on a nearby island; for the commander, who is sure...