Word: holden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-known passages in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield's comment: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." Fans of Author Salinger are an especially frustrated lot; there is no calling him up "whenever you felt like it." He is the most private of public authors...
Angola newspapers hailed the announcement with banner headlines, but, from the safety of the nearby Congo, Angolan Rebel Leader Holden Roberto snapped that the offer came too late, adding: "But it shows we are winning-this is Portugal's first reform in 500 years." His guerrillas, armed with muzzle-loading flintlocks and a few modern weapons captured in ambushes, confidently await next month's rains, when the roads will be impassable to Portuguese armor and the isolated army outposts can be surrounded and picked...
Casting as he goes along, he has recently signed stuffier sterns than Fabian, Sands and Anka. Pentagon Peter Lawford will play a British commando leader,*Richard Todd a British major, and William Holden will be U.S. Lieut. Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort. Henry Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play...
...Australia, G.M.-Holden's Ltd. commands 48% of the continent's car sales, while Ford's subsidiary pushed its share to 18% last year, after introducing the compact Falcon-with 94% Australian-built parts. From Australia, Ford and G.M. export throughout Southeast Asia...
From his Leopoldville headquarters in a dirt-floored former bar, Rebel Leader Holden Roberto admitted his rebels were fighting a losing battle, but were not yet knocked out. Roberto's forces, once 50,000 strong, now number only 10,000 unpaid men; and his only contact with them is through couriers, who take ten days to make the round trip between Leopoldville and Angola's desolate battlefields. "We have made mistakes and we are paying for them," he told his followers in the Congo. "We are now changing our tactics and retreating into the forests until...