Word: regente
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...many thousands of other unsuspecting people is the discovery that the cruel, handsome, scarred face of James Bond does not turn up until more than halfway through Ian Fleming's latest book. They will look in vain for the familiar early scene in the eighth-floor office on Regent's Park where the taciturn M re-lights his pipe and hands Bond his latest assignation with Death and the Maiden...
...flat and static. The most unusual figure is of a youth lying on his back. The lines of this statue are softer and more classical than those of the others, but all the statues give new evidence of the closeness of Etruscan to Roman art. Says Professor Mario Moretti, regent of the Villa Giulia: "It's very hard to say at this point where Etruscan art ends and Roman Republican art begins...
Restoring a wilted Wurlitzer can be both costly and timeconsuming. Last year United Air Lines Captain Erwin Young installed an organ out of the Regent Theater in Harrisburg, Pa., in his home near Mount Vernon in Virginia. Less mighty than most, Young's Wurlitzer has a two-manual console and seven ranks of pipes. But it has cost him more than $10,000 to purchase, ship, and install it in the new cinder-block and brick annex that he built for it behind his house. The work of wiring, releathering, tuning, and voicing took unnumbered hours. Sighs Young...
...fratricidal anger among Jews gave little comfort to Defendant Adolf Eichmann. Witness after witness nailed down his direct responsibility for the slaughter. Hungary's Regent-Dictator Admiral Nicholas Horthy was intimidated when a warning from the U.S. to call off Jewish deportation was followed up by a heavy bombing of Budapest, and ordered the deportation stopped. He was overruled by Eichmann. An Eichmann lieutenant proposed that Jews be deported at a rate of 3,000 a day; Eichmann-fearful that the advancing Red army might rob him of his prey-boosted the rate to 12,000 daily...
...admired among archaeologists as the fabulous "Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain John Eyre, and after picking a onetime lord mayor of London, Simon Eyre, as a likely ancestor, wrote a convincing biography and genealogy of him. Eyre, according...