Word: herbert
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Read, son of the late art historian Sir Herbert Read, was previously known as a novelist (Monk Dawson, The Professor's Daughter, The Upstart). His new book is difficult to accept as either fact or fiction. First, there are the project's origins, described in Read's introduction: "Toward the end of April, 1976, a tall, well-dressed South African walked into the offices of the London publishers W.H. Allen and Co. and offered to sell them the confessions of the celebrated Great Train Robbers ... Reluctant to sign up the thieves without an author to write their...
Carter is not merely a farmer, but an engineer and businessman of accomplishment. This combined with his strong sense of community reminds me most most of Herbert Hoover−our last farmboy cum millionaire businessman-engineer-president. In such a broader (and truer) perspective, Jimmy Carter may be the ultimate American regional synthesizer...
...nuclear weapons, of course, kill by heat, concussive force and radiation. But when their yield is reduced, as in the neutron bomb, the balance changes. In the words of Herbert Scoville Jr., a former weapons specialist for the Pentagon and CIA: "The instantaneous nuclear radiation, first gamma rays, then neutrons, become predominant, and the blast thermal effects become less and less important." As a result, if a typical bomb of this sort is exploded 500 ft. above the target, the blast and heat effects extend only about 400 yds. from ground zero, but the high-energy neutrons, hurtling...
...machinery for this mammoth undertaking was set in motion two years ago, when the idea for Holocaust occurred to NBC Programmer Irwin Segelstein. The project was assigned to Titus Productions, headed by Berger and his partner Herbert Brodkin (The Defenders, The Missiles of October). Titus' main asset was Writer Gerald Green, 56, best known for his novel The Last Angry Man. Long absorbed by the plight of Jews during the war, Green had already written two books on the subject...
...quality of this year's team has been enough to make up for the adverse conditions. The undefeated team, undoubtedly the finest Harvard has ever gathered around the green-top, was led by returning stars Frank Chiang, Herbert Hui and Terry Maskin...