Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Bardot's attempts to find the real murderer produce reactions ranging from catcalling laughter to a commendable degree of tension. Where the heroine of an Alfred Hitchcock movie would creep inquisitively into a fruit cellar, Miss Bardot pursues her suspicions into an attic, and although the only person she finds there is a police officer also investigating the crime, the classic suspense formula nevertheless brings forth some tight moments...
...houses. In one house are the young bride and her middle-class mother, with the groom and his rich parents as house guests. In the other house lives a woman who many summers before, had a passionate affair with the groom's father, and with her lives the fruit of that affair, her proudly loyal son. This son now meets the unawakened bride, and love flares up; the father meets the woman again, and love has its past-tense ardors; and at length the woman meets the bride's snobbish, small-minded mother and the groom...
Born in Colorado and raised on a fruit ranch in Northern California, Libby studied chemistry at the University of California in Berkeley. He got his doctorate in 1933, went on to teach chemistry at Berkeley. But after Pearl Harbor, he plunged into the supersecret Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb...
...this somewhat lengthy foolishness when he is not-means dialogue that is blithe and blithery: "'I don't want to go to Jane's,' said Maisie. 'She gets even drunker than I do. The last time I dined there, she sat in a fruit salad.' 'Perhaps she'll do it again if we hurry.' Michael gripped her firmly by the arm. 'Come along.'" Most readers will come along happily enough...
...political structures of most of the other key industrial states where the 1960 election will be won or lost. Mostly Democratic New York City has 40% of the voters, its mostly-Republican suburbs have 20%, and the remaining 40% are "upstate"-in a green and generally Republican fruit-and-dairy farmland dotted by a few grey and generally Democratic cities. Last week TIME Correspondent John L. Steele made soundings in all three areas, reported that Jack Kennedy stands to carry New York by a margin ranging from 250,000 to 500,000 votes...