Word: protractedness
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In Wild 90 Mailer, with Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox-both of whom are real actors-pretend they have been holed up together for days. They yell at each other and chain-drink. The camera stays mostly on Mailer, who goes "Unhh! Unhh!" a lot while he is thinking up...
After protracted, secrecy-shrouded deliberations, the company chose as Chambers' successor Sir Peter Allen, 62, one of four I.C.I. deputy chairmen. Allen promptly promised that he will bring "no abrupt-or even, for that matter, gentle-changes of policy."
The prize for physics went to Hans Albrecht Bethe, 61, mainly for discoveries during the 1930s concerning the energy production of stars. A German-born scientist who fled the rising Third Reich and who has been teaching at Cornell University since 1935, Bethe (pronounced Baytuh) theorized that the inordinate energy...
One of the Fellas. With the G.O.P. convention less than ten months away, the field is more crowded with presidential contenders than at any comparable time in a generation. Not since 1940, when 13 men won votes on the first ballot and Wendell Willkie only managed to nail down the...
After a protracted period of ambivalence on the Viet Nam war, Michigan's Governor George Romney followed most other leading Republicans last April 7 in giving general support to the Administration's policy. Last week, by contrast, Romney was leading the party. Although his exact destination was not...