Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Envy is the true villain of the piece. Edward Henderson is a middle aged, mild little accountant who envies his fishing pal's fine body, the virility of his 25 years, his casual good looks. Roger, a simple mechanic, in turn is envious of Henderson's tidy income, his complacent marriage. Henderson is the amateur hypnotist, Roger the willing subject, and one night when their mutual covetousness is at its height and hypnosis is at work, the switch takes place. Author Glaskin is the kind of fantasist who keeps things on a plane so practical that anyone...
...engineer who never works at his profession, Kavalerov's pal Ivan has taken to haranguing crowds in beer halls, excoriating the regime for destroying human feelings. Picked up and questioned by the GPU, he proclaims: "I believe that many human feelings are scheduled for liquidation." The interrogator: "Such as?" Ivan: "Pity, tenderness, pride, jealousy, love-in a word, almost all the feelings of which the human soul was made up. I want to organize a final parade of those feelings." A fine state of mutual contempt exists between the subversive team of Ivan-Kavalerov and the living symbols...
...manner in which Clark, the committee charges, in less than three years earned $167,570 in salary. $409.020 in stock gains. As Clark told it, people were always trying to force money on him. and he had a hard time pushing it away. In one near deal, an old pal named Bernard Lowe came to Clark with a newborn song called Butterfly and an offer to assign 25% of the publisher's royalties to Click Corp.. one of Clark's publishing outfits. "I pointed out that this was unnecessary," Clark explained to the wondering Congressmen. "Lowe insisted...
Briefcases & Bullets. Reported TIME Correspondent Alexander Campbell: "The enormous crowds lining Seoul's sidewalks clapped good-humoredly as rank upon rank of boys and girls marched along the city's main thoroughfares, sturdily swing ing their briefcases and singing patriotic songs. Not far from the presidential pal ace of Kyungmudae (which means man sion of courage and beauty), the students were halted by determined, heavily armed police. The students demanded that Rhee receive a delegation of three or four of their leaders to discuss new elections and to promise no more police intervention on university campuses. When...
Keynote Address. In Denver, after Dentist Irvin R. Bertram told police that someone had stolen $60 from his safe, he received the money in a letter that said: "I am not a thief; thanks for the loan, pal. Next time see that your safe is locked...