Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substitute which may have a great and grisly future. Last week they sent exploding cream-colored envelopes to Ernie Bevin, Anthony Eden and other prominent Britons. Nobody was hurt-largely because of the British Government's long experience with unfriendly mail. But the packet was ingenious. Within an inner envelope, marked "Private and Confidential," were 1) a cardboard folder containing enough powdered gelignite to kill the opener, 2) a pencil-sized battery, and 3) a detonating system supposed to work when the envelope was slit with a metal letter opener or when the expectant reader opened the folder...
...Andrassy Ut. Five months ago the Communists discovered a "dangerous plot" involving "highly placed persons." They arrested Bela Kovacs, personal friend of Nagy and secretary-general of his party, and 20 inner-circle members of the Government. Communist Police Chief Peter Gabor, at No. 60 Andrassy Ut (the Ministry of the Interior's political prison), was long a member of the Soviet secret police in Moscow; he knew how to get "confessions." What went on in "No. 60" was revealed in a smuggled letter from one prisoner. "The interrogation was a nightmare," he wrote. "I was allowed...
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 7 sides). One of Mendelssohn's least attractive symphonies, in which the brassy ponderousness of the two outer movements smothers the charm and simplicity of the woodwinds in the two inner movements, done as attractively as possible by Sir Thomas. Performance: good...
Archeologist Healey was led up a mysterious trail to a place called Bonampak, where eleven ancient temples lay hidden in the jungle. The biggest was called "El Tigre" (the mountain lion). When Healey entered its inner sanctum, a live mountain lion bounded out. This pleased the Lacandones; the temple's faithful guardian...
Though not the most striking of Mayan "Old Empire" ruins, Bonampak is remarkably well preserved. Three stelae (record stones) have fallen on their faces, protecting their elaborate carvings from weather damage. Three intact inner rooms contain the most perfect specimens of Mayan fresco painting. In full color, Mayan kings, priests and warriors parade across the walls carrying umbrellas, waving fans, blowing horns and beating drums...