Word: generall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fist on the back. Some wore berets or military fatigue hats. They were like South American guerillas, but badly organized. The gates to the concert were opened later than even the organizers expected, causing a massive pileup of people who arrived early hoping to get the best of the general admission seats. "People's Security" was much better at protecting Marley...
...Chile, the company worked out a deal with Daniel Fuenzalida, chief economic adviser to General Gustavo Leigh, a member of the ruling junta. Fuenzalida and others formed a company called Chilco, which the SEC said was to be paid .5% of the value of any contracts that ISC secured in the country. One member of Chilco was Benjamin Rencoret, who was and is a Chilean honorary consul in Houston. Despite payments of $30,000 to Chilco, the company failed to get the contract it was seeking: construction of a $375 million liquefied natural gas plant...
This is the expensive Dracula that the gang at Hammer films must have dreamed of making back in the '50s and '60s. The legend had fallen out of general favor back then, and only B-picture makers and their fans still cared about the ineffable Transylvanian count and the strange folkloristic ways of fighting off his baleful influence (garlic on the windowsills, stakes through the heart, that sort of nonsense). Like those old programmers, the new Dracula is shot in the high gothic-romantic tradition, lushly scored and terribly serious about itself and its subject matter...
Nominating and balloting procedures appear to have more in common with political conventions than with literary panels. Independent committees from various parts of the business will select book candidates. The academy will distribute about 2,000 voting rights throughout the A.A.P. membership. In general, the bigger the company, the more votes it will be able to cast. Categories are no longer confined to such elite fare as poetry and belles lettres. New subjects include such mass-market items as religion and inspiration, selfhelp, cooking, crafts, gothic romances, historical novels, fantasy, science fiction, mysteries and westerns...
...Forrestal. He thought them dangerous men. Back in the '30s MacArthur had sued Pearson for close to $2 million. Pearson got out of the libel suit only after turning up a Eurasian chorus girl whom MacArthur had discarded, and agreeing not to publish, for as long as the general lived, his love letters to her. At Eisenhower's request, correspondents had suppressed the Patton soldier slapping incident; Pearson considered Patton a warrior authoritarian and in wartime broke the story. Pearson hectored Forrestal with innuendo and false allegations while he was the nation's first Secretary of Defense...