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Playing with Words. But if the major powers cannot get to gether on the first step of a nuclear test ban, there is no hope of progress toward the glittering goal of G. & C. As played by the Communists, general and complete disarmament is a word game that permits everyone to inspect the disarming, but not the arming. Moscow would welcome witnesses to the destruction of a certain number of guns and bombs, but would not let outsiders in to see whether Russia is turning out bigger and better arms at factories elsewhere. As one American expert puts...
Last week, on the seventh day of their ascent, the four men finally stalked up the last, sloping ice field and stood to gether in blinding sunlight at the summit...
Some established stars lost out alto gether. Broad Jumper Gregg Bell, 29, a gold-medal winner in the Melbourne Games of 1956, finished a frustrated fourth. Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski failed to qualify. Toughest of all was the disappointment in the shotput. Army Lieut. Bill Nieder, 26, holds the world record at 65 ft. 7 in. but, hampered by a bad right knee, he reverted to his old line-drive style of toss and managed only a weak 61 ft. 9¾ in. to finish fourth behind Dallas Long (63 ft. 3¾ in.), Parry O'Brien...
Hard & Half-Hard. The last two sim nons to reach the U.S. are published to gether in a single volume called Destinations. One of them, The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet, is a mixture of detection, mood and Paris atmosphere that gets under way when an elderly gentleman drops dead at a Paris bookstall. Since the author is more interested in the frayed lives and barely concealed despairs of his characters than in the mystery, he calls it a "half-hard," i.e., half-serious novel...
...Gary oddly moved and vaguely irritated. In Volume I, Prisoner of Grace, Heroine Nina Latter told her story - that of a woman who obviously needed two husbands, behaved outrageously with both, but was so genuinely lovable that neither could live without her, and all three wound up living to gether. In Volume II, Except the Lord, her first husband, Liberal Politician Ches ter Nimmo, had his say and explained how a willful, lusty moralist used his wife, his brains and his political savvy to rise from a small-town spellbinder to the peerage and a Cabinet post. In Not Honour...