Word: perched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris-Monte Carlo-St. Tropez axis. He once wrote a Pulitzer Prizewinning novel and now has trouble whisking the dust off his typewriter. Barbara Woodruff (Diahann Carroll), tall and graceful as a flamingo, has taken a long-legged step from a Harlem fire escape to a high-fashion perch as the best-paid model in Paris. Her philosophy: "I just want money, and then some money, and loads of lovely love...
...Simon), a crusty old naval Caliban who exists totally on a physical level. During one memorable scene he shows the captain's young wife, Juliette (Dita Parle), the souvenirs from his voyages to the South Seas: horns and masks, beads and three satanic cats that jump without warning and perch on Pere Jules' shoulders...
...nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over Netherlands New Guinea, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody...
Emptying the Gottwald mausoleum was simple compared with a second task Novotny put before the party: leveling the 6,000-ton marble monument to Stalin, which, on a perch overlooking the city, looms like a ghost ship from the banks of the Moldau River. Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers, scientists. Instead of bothering to demolish the colossus, people were whispering in Prague cafés last week that Comrade Novotny could simply...
...would probably use old-style bombs, and the Russians and others might be invited to participate or observe. But on dry Broom Lake in the isolated northeast corner of the range, a 1,500-ft. tower is under construction for far more advanced testing. On its top will soon perch a small, unshielded nuclear reactor designed to give powerful bursts of neutrons and gamma rays for short periods. There will be no explosion, but scientists will be able to observe the effect of the radiation on test objects (and perhaps animals) arranged around the tower. Thus, they should be able...