Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night). Premier Feisal had to placate fanatical religious leaders who exploded in fury at every mention of reform. Even the most progressive of his brother princes think no good can come of introducing democracy right now, and fear that the feudal kingdom of Saudi Arabia might fragment if local parliaments were allowed. Frustrated, entangled in bigotry and the ever-sprouting tendrils of corruption in government, Feisal fell seriously ill (most of his life, he has had to endure chronic pain, reportedly the result of a childhood appendectomy). Last week, looking drawn and dejected, he announced that he would leave...
...compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which run as high as 28 for one letter, and following two thin but constant veins of comic paydirt...
Ready for Men. Few of the bodies that the undertakers snatch from the drink have any re-use value; they are much too beat-up. But the Air Force pays Berger to go after every fragment; it doesn't want secret apparatus lying around on the ocean bottom, where it might be retrieved by unauthorized divers. Another reason is that the hunks of an unsuccessful missile can often tell why it failed. In 1958 a rocket engine exploded and showered the water off the Cape with thousands of small pieces. One of them, which was recovered after a long...
...into Masan's streets and never returned. The police claimed they knew nothing about him. But last week a Masan angler, fishing in the city's harbor, brought up Kim Chu Yul's bloated body. Still protruding from the corpse's head was a fragment of one of the tear gas shells that Masan police had used in quelling the election-day riot...
...sheepskin from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City (a diploma mill), a membership in the Masons, and a Saxon Six automobile. Then a rustic came to Brinkley with the complaint that he was a "flat tire," sexually inert. Somehow, Brinkley hit on the idea of implanting a fragment of goat gonad in the old fellow's testicles. He did, and before long the patient had recuperated to the extent that he was able to sire a healthy son-a lad named, appropriately enough, Billy...