Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozens of compounds prepared in the laboratories of private industry. After screening 5,000 compounds in search of one that kills snails but leaves other stream life unharmed, Shell Oil researchers in Britain reported that they may finally have discovered the chemical the world has been waiting for. One pound of the stuff per acre of water kills snails within 15 minutes by attacking their respiratory system. According to company claims, it is "relatively innocuous" to other forms of animal and plant life...
...dear old dog, as connoisseurs of screen comedy will quickly surmise, is Britain's Margaret Rutherford (TIME, May 24), a 71-year-old crock of charm who, pound for pound, is possibly the funniest woman alive. In Gallop, the film version of an Agatha Christie thriller called After the Funeral, Actress Rutherford once more portrays Miss Jane Marple, a dotty old dame with a weakness for cookies and a nose for blood...
...much difficulty in saying things as I do." Boris Pasternak (described as looking "at the same time like an Arab and his horse") believes it is "no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated." Venerable Ezra Pound, 77, "stuck" and unable to finish his epic Cantos, says, "The question is. am I dead?" Katherine Anne Porter gloomily concludes, "Misunderstanding and separation are the natural conditions...
Died. .William Alfred Foyle, 78, founder in 1904 (with Brother Gilbert) of W. & G. Foyle, Ltd., world's largest bookstore with 4,000,000 volumes stashed in seven London buildings, a flamboyant cockney who once shocked bibliophiles by selling his wares at tuppence per pound, another time offered to buy the books Adolf Hitler was burning (no reply), and subsequently got his own revenge by using copies of Mein Kampf to protect his roofs during the blitz; of a stroke; in Essex, England...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, yesterday called for the creation of a "West Point" of Criminal Justice, in the form of a Federal academy to be located at Harvard...