Word: leon
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...absurdity of such a concession to ill-informed public opinion was illustrated last week with the tale of Lieut. Colonel Leon Utter, 39, who was leading his Marine battalion in a search-and-clear operation on a steep hillside near the port of Qui Nhon, eastern terminus of vital Route 19 to the highlands, which was reopened in Operation Ramrod after months under Viet Cong control. Utter soon found the enemy: 20 fully armed Viet Cong troops who promptly took refuge in a nearby network of tunnels. It would have been easy enough for Utter and his men to wipe...
During World War I, long before the Maccabees of Leon Uris' Exodus, a tiny Jewish spy ring began operating against the Turkish rulers of Palestine. It was an unlikely group: an agronomist, a poet, a mule trader, a part-time fiddler, two frightened young women and a handful of farmers, none of whom had ever spied before. As this unusual and essentially accurate novel shows, it was a bitter and frustrating adventure-for those who lived through...
...scene is present-day Berlin. The hero is Leon Spey, an Austrian-American Jew who has become a professor of literature, and is now the highly paid front man for a U.S. hotel chain. Spey is supposed to organize an opening-day celebration for the hotel outfit's newest aluminum and glass waterhole. He needs the cooperation of the aged and mysterious Prince Schatten, who runs a crumbling resort hotel on the border of East Berlin. The prince is guarded by a sinister doctor and his coldly beautiful blonde daughter. That is the start, but after that Novelist Morton...
...only too well. In the eyes of the overworked businessman or scientist whose leisure-time intake during the past year has consisted of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and 94 pages of The Group, even the lip-moving fellow commuter who mumbles his way through a Leon Uris novel is someone to be regarded with awe. The nonreading executive often feels like an Edgar Allan Poe character who is slowly but surely being sealed off from the rest of the world by a wall of unread books. At the wall's foundation are the Pickwick Papers...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A critical evaluation of L.B.J. by men close to his four predecessors: Kennedy Biographer James MacGregor Burns, Eisenhower Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, Truman Economist Leon Keyserling, and Roosevelt Brain-Truster Thomas Corcoran...