Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike Eliot's, Simon Carter's world is inately ludicrous. He is a party to a power struggle between two stock Snow characters, Edwin Leacock (the "ambitious scientist-administrator," confident of imminent success, armed for battle with "bonhomie and grin" and "four-square honesty") and his deputy Robert Falcon (old friend of Carter's, the right sort of person, arrogant, dandyish, famous soldier-explorer, with a head like a ravaged handsome Apollo"). But the struggle is not for control of a ministry or even of an industry, but for the right to guide the destinies of the London...
...novels abound in crucial incidents) is not a hasty or disastrous slip of the tongue, as it is the gruesome death of a young assistant keeper who is crushed to death by a diseased giraffe. For the Zoo's leaders, however, death has only a Snowbound political significance: Falcon, the Curator of Mammals, is directly responsible for the killing, but Leacock, the Director, decides not to mention the incident to him because in his own campaign for a "National Zoological Reserve' he must have Falcon's support, and "cannot afford the slightest appearance of vindictiveness against a man like that...
...gravity, prices are falling while the economy as a whole is rising. Last week U.S. producers posted price cuts in industries ranging from autos to nonferrous metals, scrap to gasoline (see following story). Chrysler Corp.'s low-and middle-priced 19625 bowed with reductions averaging 2%; Chevy, Falcon, Rambler and other major models also rolled in with lower tags. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, which has risen barely 2½% in the past two years, showed its usual slight August decline (to 128% of the 1947-49 average) as harvest fruits and vegetables loaded the market...
...changes: the nation's auto dealers. The only dealers to get completely restyled cars-the trim new Plymouths and Dodge Darts-were generally delighted, since last season's models were particularly bulky and bulbous. But dealers whose 1961 wares had been hot sellers, notably those handling the Falcon and the Mercury Comet, were openly relieved that their cars had retained the same basic design. Said Oldsmobile Dealer Harry Healer of Watertown, Mass.: "The beauty of it is that they aren't making cars obsolete in a year any more...
...brought out its intermediate entry-the Fairlane-which is approximately the size of standard sedans of a decade ago. General Motors, following yet another tack, has put its money on the Chevy II, only inches larger than a compact and apparently aimed at competing with Ford's bestselling Falcon...