Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain and France joined in supporting efforts of the United States to get a cease-fire as a first step toward resolving the Formosa crisis...
...technical troubles extend even to the actors. Kulukundis's kisses and Propper's right hooks were equally unconvincing. As for the set, I gather that it was the work of several hands, and therefore hold my fire, except to mention that it seemed that Miss Ryder did her cooking and dishwashing in Kulukundis's bedroom...
When the Harvardman leaves Harvard in the spring he frequently wonders what it is that takes over during the summer months. He who stays behind to see finds out that the buildings can withstand the tread of Fire Red toes. Harvard as a whole, assuming for the summer an altruistic little Burden for itself, feels she has done a good deed for American higher education...
...years ago, tireless Inventor Link took up another hobby-deep-sea diving. Already, Link has co-developed a deep-sea diver's underwater scooter, a torpedo shaped like a hotel hallway's fire extinguisher that tows a diver along behind. Link is building a 91-ft. Diesel yacht specifically designed for undersea exploration with such gadgets as an underwater metal locater for hunting wrecks and buried treasure, so sensitive it picks up tin cans. Next year, Link hopes to use the boat to explore the sunken Roman seaport of Caesarea, off the coast of Israel...
NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by Vladimir Nabokov (214 pp.; Doubleday; $3.50), follows Lolita, the cannon shot heard round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that...