Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though it be, still has a point; and Rattigan, with a sure ear for dialogue, makes it clearly and movingly...
...coxswain made a quick personal decision to execute the classic naval maneuver known as getting the hell out of here. Our escorts and minesweeper broke off and began firing back at the Communist PTs and gunboats that had ambushed us. Blood-red tracers zipped, skipped and finally floated out like spent skyrocket bursts as they sought targets. Brilliant, diamond-bright air bursts from Communist shore batteries to the east rained shrapnel down. Over the roar of small boats' motors rose the baritone whump of Nationalist three-inchers and the chatter of both sides' machine guns...
...Brains. With Lehman-raised cash, Thornton and associates bought Litton, then a small microwave-tube outfit that had supplied Hughes with its best magnetrons, i.e., vacuum tubes that emit radar impulses. During the next 15 months, Litton used stock and cash to pick up half a dozen little-known firms making computers, printed circuits, servomechanisms, communications and navigation equipment. When Litton bought Digital Controls Systems Inc. in 1954, it also got brilliant Research Scientist George Steele; Steele heads Litton's work on lightweight computers that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane in flight. Litton...
...proceed alone from Guam to Leyte for training exercises. In the dark first moments of July 30, she was halfway to Leyte. With no warning cry from any lookout, there were two tremendous explosions on the starboard side. Precisely how many men the blasts killed will never be known. In about twelve minutes-at 0014-the Indianapolis sank, throwing some 850 officers and men into the water. They had life jackets and a few rafts, but no boats...
...Armchair. Despite these body checks, Heyerdahl is convinced that he has found additional evidence that the Easter Island image makers were originally seafarers from Peru. One reason: ancient Peru was known for megalithic structures not unlike those on Easter Island. The book-translated from Norwegian into chatty, slapdash English-has travelogue overtones of mystery and menace that seldom seem justified by the events described. Perhaps the Easter islanders were a shade too hip for the Western visitors, but they still provide a good story for armchair archaeologists...