Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell. This anti-hero lashes out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
...week's end Humphrey landed in Australia to spend two days before making the last stops of his 15-day journey in New Zealand, the Philippines-where President Ferdinand Marcos anticipated his arrival by asking his Congress to send 2,000 troops to South Viet Nam-and South Korea. At an official luncheon in Canberra, Harold Holt, Australia's new Prime Minister, gave him such a warm introduction that the tanned but tired traveler confessed: "You touched the favorite nerve cell in my body-namely, the talking cell." Whereupon the Vice President delivered yet another speech. He reassured...
Although he is now 36, and a mathematician for Sylvania, Paul Cooper has never lost his boyhood enthusiasm for the fanciful science-fiction stories of Jules Verne. While musing about Journey to the Center of the Earth several months ago, Cooper himself took off on a mathematical flight of fancy that more than rivals Verne's most imaginative work. By crisscrossing the earth with subterranean tunnels, the freewheeling mathematician proposes in the current issue of the American Journal of Physics, man could achieve intercontinental travel at ballistic missile speed...
...Wandering Birds. The British roam the moors, the heaths and the braes; Swiss and French scale the Alps, while Arab and Hindu plod weary miles to reach Mecca or the Ganges. To the German, however, the act, and not the object of the journey, is what counts. German doctors and orthopedists recommend wandern as good for the heart, lungs, legs and circulation. German sociologists inquire anxiously on questionnaires, "Do you walk with your wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century...
...Journey. The strain of the talks had told on Shastri. He looked weary and fatigued after signing the agreement. That night, going to bed at midnight, he hoped for a good sleep. But scarcely an hour later he staggered into the hallway of his villa, clutching his chest. Guards summoned his doctor, who immediately injected a stimulant. A team of Russian physicians rushed to his bedside, shot adrenalin directly into the heart. But nothing helped. At 61, Shastri was dead of a heart attack, his third in six years...