Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies paid millions of dollars for choice concessions. Providing services and equipment to the oil industry made a thin upper crust gorgeously rich, but scarcely benefited such middle-class families as the Betancourts. Rómulo went to work as a bill collector for a wholesale tobacco firm, played sand-lot soccer (right forward), entered the law school of Caracas' Central University...
...TWIST OF SAND, by Geoffrey Jenkins (276 pp.; Viking; $3.95), proves once again that a proper adventure story translates the reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that...
Major Crisp, who describes himself as a frightened man who fought to submerge his fears, was always out in front, almost always outnumbered. His picture of the desert terrain is remarkably well drawn-a weird world of sand and escarpments where the battle swirled without seeming aim or purpose except to destroy whatever enemy showed, usually to the surprise of both sides. Friends destroyed each other supposing that they had the enemy in their sights, and Crisp's most sickening memory is that of the day when he himself knocked out a British tank...
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. A comical investigation of a spring phenomenon: the collegian swarm to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the action is as hot and horizontal as the sand...
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. A comical, exaggerated investigation of the springtime phenomenon: the collegian swarm to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the action is as hot and horizontal as the sand...