Word: glowworms
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...father of two little girls, "Tuco" (Glowworm) Paz plays the guitar, dances to flamenco tunes, likes bebop, reads Faulkner and Dos Passes. He is the author of a prizewinning book of short stories (The Abyss), detective yarns, unpublished poetry, three volumes on Argentine government and law, and some of President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine...
...Glowworm. Walter Wellesley ("I hate the name") Smith, 44, a balding, mournful-looking product of Green Bay, Wis., went to Notre Dame ('27), once placed last in a mile race, the only one he ever ran. After that he took up spectator sports. He broke in on the Milwaukee Sentinel, moved to the St. Louis Star (now the Star-Times) as a copyreader. "One day they fired the sports department," recalls Red, and he got his chance. His first assignment was night football practice at Washington University. Red wrote the story from the viewpoint of a glowworm outshone...
...Swedish astronomer, gazing through his telescope one quiet night last week, saw a luminous something-no bigger than a glowworm-appear on the horizon. Within ten seconds it had grown into a 90-ft.-long, torpedolike missile whose fiery tail spewed blue and green smoke. Said the astronomer: "I had visions of doomsday...
...Argentine Government jailed him for eleven hours, but (he wrote) "throughout . . . treated [me] with courtesy." Other foreign correspondents sneaked stories out (via Montevideo) about the oppressions of Argentine dictatorship. Reporter Cortesi argued urbanely with Argentine censors-but never once tried to by-pass them. Then, suddenly, fortnight ago, the glowworm turned...
...more impressed than Dr. Imbo. No man-made scene of battle and destruction had shaken them so verbally. They wrote: ". . . incredibly awesome. . . . The great lambent tongue on the mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action: "Gosh, when I tell 'em about this in Muncie...