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...tterdämmerung. Some are embarrassed to death-mostly civilians. Lady Molly Jeavons' town house cops a packet; the hostess goes with it, and so does Priscilla Tolland. In fact, a head count shows that six previous survivors of the Powell epic are killed off in this novel. In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish-notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction. He is now on the make as a staff major, a virtuoso of bumf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War of Total Paper | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Much of the violence centered in Jordan, where two bombs exploded in the capital of Amman and three more in the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem. There might have been even more explosions if alert Jordanian demolition experts had not found and defused eight additional bombs, including a packet of four dynamite sticks discovered near the office of the governor of Jerusalem. As a result, security guards were doubled at government buildings, and guards frisked passersby for explosives. Jordanian police arrested two infiltrators from Syria who, police said, were on a mission to assassinate King Hussein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Intramural Mayhem | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...later, when he finally had enough fuel on board for an escape. Five airport guards tried to stop him by hanging onto the tail. He blew them off with a blast of prop wash and headed for Pakistan, but not before circling over the Delhi jail to drop a packet of cookies to his former fellow inmates. Flying low, he eluded the Indian Air Force jets that were scrambled to bring him back. After landing at Karachi, he declared to reporters: "The only violation of Indian law I have committed is to waive procedural red tape because I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Good Bad Man | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Durfee is back at 145, and Captain Tom Gilmore is at 137. Both have experience, good moves, and know how to punish and break down an opponent. Howie Henjyoji, a bouncing packet of pure energy, provides strength at 123. All are lettermen...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Matmen May Be Title-Bound If... | 11/30/1965 | See Source »

...lonely room. Seeking absolute solitude, he turns out his cat and dog, closes the curtains, covers the parrot cage and goldfish bowl with his coat, and blacks out the room's only mirror. Finally, he destroys the last reference to the world in which he has lived, a packet of old photographs. But he cannot escape himself, and as he lifts his eyes to the barren wall before him, he comes face to face with the image of his own deadpan likeness, with a patch over one blind eye. Except for that moment of revelation, the actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festivalities | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

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