Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors. China is still governed, after all, by a "great Confucian political fiction, the myth of rule by virtue...
Industrious Mrs. Highet's first casual attempt at fiction, titled Above Suspicion and published under her maiden name, Helen MacInnes, became a runaway bestseller and a first-rate film. Since then, periodically and with unhurried ease, she has sat down with pencil and paper and turned out such bestselling yarns of international intrigue as Assignment in Brittany, North from Rome, Decision at Delphi and The Venetian Affair. All told, her twelve novels have sold more than 4,000,000 copies and have been translated into 19 languages. Five have been sold to the movies...
...FICTION...
...mistake. Not so, announced Moscow, explaining that Venus III was intended to make a soft landing by means of a parachute, but failed. Soft or hard, Sir Bernard Lovell, the director of Britain's Jodrell Bank Observatory, worried that Venus III might have contaminated the planet, raising science-fiction fears of Earth germs multiplying and perhaps taking grotesque forms in virgin territory...