Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2) 3. The Honey Badger, Ruark (3) 4. Those Who Love, Stone (10) 5. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (4) 6. Hotel, Hailey (6) 7. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5) 8. The Green Berets, Moore (9) 9. Thomas, Mydans 10. The Looking Glass War, le Carre...
...golfing vacation under Georgia's golden autumn skies, Dwight Eisenhower loafed around the Augusta National Golf Club course and chatted amiably with many old friends. This was his 43rd visit to Augusta, and it seemed comfortably similar to all the rest-until his 15th day there...
Hating Nikita. Penkovsky was the optimum spy: unlike the mere information gatherers, he had the golden gift of evaluation. As a colonel in the GRU (Russia's military intelligence agency), he not only had access to top defense information but was also trained by no less a lot of key figures than Top Spy Ivan Serov and Missile Boss Sergei Varentsov to spot what was most valuable in the Soviet military treasure chest. Penkovsky's equivalent in U.S. circles, say his U.S. editors, would have been "a vice president of the Rand Corp., a graduate of West Point...
...celebrated case of the Millery Corpse-a grisly mess of rotting flesh and jumbled bones that, after an autopsy lasting eleven days, was identified largely by study of the hair and bones as the mortal remains of a smalltime Paris playboy. The public was profoundly impressed, and the golden age of forensic medicine began...
Brilliantly prosed and composed by Yukio Mishima, a 40-year-old novelist and playwright (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) who has been called "the Japanese Camus," The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is obviously intended as a major work of art -as an Oriental transfiguration of the novel of the absurd, and as a crypto-sociological study of the homicidal hysteria that, in Author Mishima's opinion, lies latent in the Japanese character. Unhappily, the book turns out to be simply a diabolically skillful thriller...