Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed. Sure enough, while Burton becomes a millionaire cannery owner and his blood enemy Ryan is transformed into a member of the Alaska legislature who crusades for statehood, their children grow up, marry and die violent but poetic deaths during a dogsled race to the obstetrics ward. However, an infant daughter survives the star-crossed union, and in practically no time at all (as Hollywood time flies) she is a grown-up tomato with troubles...
Streaming into Leopoldville last week, the delegates to the Congo's first Parliament were a strange-looking lot. Some had the sharply pointed heads of a tribe that practices infant skull bandaging. Newly elected Senators in elaborate robes sat soberly at sidewalk cafes sipping beer, looking somewhat dazed. Others were tieless and in shirtsleeves, but sported bright, beaded caps with dangling horns and tassels as they gawked at the sights. Most were obscure villagers who had never before been to the city, but some of the faces were already nationally and even world famous...
...INFANT WITH THE GLOBE (240 pp.) -Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, translated by Robert Graves-Yoseloff...
...penniless aristocratic family and, in succession, a crusading young liberal editor and atheist, an unsuccessful playwright, a successful politician and. toward the end of his life, a conservative, well-to-do author and defender of the faith. The information is necessary because. Graves believes, Alarcon wrote The Infant with the Globe as a bantering, ironic commentary on his own youth...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Frosted Jack goes north of the Arctic Circle, watches an Eskimo infant grow to manhood...