Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing, quality and quality alone is the first critical consideration. In his essay The Simple Art of Murder Raymond Chandler writes: "The detective story, even in its most conventional form, is difficult to write well. Good specimens of the art are much rarer than good serious novels." MacDonald's best work demands our consideration, not because the author is an intelligent man sincerely interested in serious issues, but because he has found in crime fiction a form perfectly appropriate to those interests, and in himself a talent capable of developing that form to a new level of complexity and interest...
...which has led to shootings, dynamitings, traffic tie-ups and the furlough of 15,000 steelworkers because their plants have run out of space in which to stack up undelivered steel. The yearly rate of steel shipments is down by about 1,500,000 tons. Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond P. Shafer last week asked the governors of eight other steel-producing states to join him in negotiating an end to the walkout. And in Utah, where the economy is off by $30 million so far because of a twelve-week strike against the Kennecott Copper Co., Governor Calvin...
Despite occasional lurid headlines, most divorces are dull, sad and tediously routine. So when the case of Raymond v. Marie Bivins came up for settlement in Rapid City, S. Dak., last week, Court Reporter Frances Geyerman flicked on her tape recorder and prepared to be bored. She was almost shot to death instead...
What drove Bivins berserk? "He didn't want the divorce to go through," his attorney said. It didn't. Since Judge Parker had not yet signed the decree, Marie was still the legal wife of Raymond Bivins when she died...
Died. George F. Ferris, 65, master builder and boss of Raymond International Inc. construction firm since 1953; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A specialist in the big and bold, Raymond International built the Strategic Air Command bases in Spain, the major government buildings in Brasilia, Chesapeake Bay's awesome 171-mile bridge-tunnel and, most recently, in combine with several other firms, the vast complex of airfields and harbors in Thailand and South Viet...