Word: hives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...District Court at Alexandria, Va. last week, Joseph Sydney Petersen Jr., 40, a gangling, cross-eyed former research analyst in the National Security Agency, the Government's topmost secret hive of codebreakers and message-interceptors, pleaded guilty to espionage...
...Supreme Court at 91. Burbled Barkley: "I feel like a kid." In Illinois, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas was roaming the countryside being folksy with farmers, militant with miners, professorial with college groups and hearty with luncheon clubs. All across the U.S., the politicians, like bees in a hive warmed by the spring sun, were beginning to stir and buzz. The reason: the congressional election battle of 1954 had begun...
This book is the second novel to reach the U.S. from Franco Spain in the past three months, and the second to show that thoughtful and compassionate Spanish writers take a grim view of life. In The Hive (TIME, Oct. 5), Camilo José Cela highlighted the plight of poverty-stricken Madrileños. In The Final Hours, José Suárez Carreño, 39, portrays the night life of Madrid and offers a world where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless...
...Navaho reservation, about 80 miles northwest of Gallup, N.M. on a spine-rattling dirt road. Down the winding course of the canyon runs an underground river. In summer, Navahos farm the sandy banks and dig for water in midstream. Superstitiously afraid of the cave ruins, they build their hive-shaped hogans at the feet of the sky-filling sandstone cliffs. The Navahos still paint animals, like the cows below, on the cliffs; the earliest known example of their reportorial pictures is reproduced above...
Such scenes, written in a bare, vigorously perceptive prose, infuse The Hive with uncommon power. It is too bad that Novelist Cela's method is self-defeating. He spreads himself too thinly over too many characters, and his vignettes, taken together, lack the sharpness that they have separately. But many a lesser, more successful novelist would give his best typing finger to be able to evoke the bitterness, insight and compassion that Novelist Cela packs into brief scenes that plunge straight at the heart...