Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flaming apostles of apartheid in the Nationalist Party, the Keyser case was terribly embarrassing. All concerned did their best to avoid the public eye. The case was shunted to a remote, dark room in Pretoria magistrate's court; the hearings were held in the late afternoon behind closed doors. But the record of the proceedings reached opposition newspapers, and they splashed the story for South Africans (white) and South Africans (nonwhite) to read...
Boss of this efficient and expensive security apparatus is Walter Bradford, 57, a onetime U.S. Justice Department agent turned private eye. Hired by the Dominican embassy in Washington last fall, Bradford put 30 detectives to work when Ramfis arrived for school. Most of the agents are off-duty policemen or sheriff's deputies, who can spot a suspicious stranger instantly. To buttress their memories, the detectives use tiny cameras to snap hundreds of pictures of passers-by for comparison at Bradford's frequent briefings. The fleet of patrol cars is linked by shortwave radio to the Ambassador headquarters...
...libraries, last week turned in a thesis on the maimed, ailing creatures of the great, earthy 16th century painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Torrilhon's hypothesis: in painting after painting, Bruegel reproduced the maladies of his Low Country peasants with a diagnostician's keen eye...
Thus a mysterious Tibetan calling himself T. (for Tuesday) Lobsang Rampa described the operation that at the age of eight opened his "third eye," giving him, in addition to clairvoyant and telepathic powers, the ability to diagnose a person's state of health and humor from his "aura" (a cleaning man in a temper looked like "a figure smothered in blue smoke, shot through with flecks of angry red"). This was a mere overture to a long vaudeville show of astonishment presented in Rampa's account of his Tibetan life, The Third Eye (Doubleday; $3.50). Other attractions included...
...Since first publication in England 18 months ago, The Third Eye has sold close to 300,000 copies, 12,000 of them in the U.S. From all over the world fan mail poured in to Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Fans wanted to come in person, but the mysterious Tibetan might have been in a state of permanent astral projection for all they could find of him. Only a few insiders knew-or thought they knew-that Rampa was really Dr. Kuan Suo, an egg-bald, bearded sage living quietly with his English wife outside Dublin. One of these insiders, pretty...