Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north with the civil rights riots, their films had another effect. Ironically, television, which had given such a boost to the civil rights movement, began to obstruct it and contribute mightily to the white blacklash. "Take the case of some recent footage on the Atlanta riots," says M.I.T. Political Scientist Harold Isaacs. "What you saw was a black blur of a face...
...year from spring to fall. For five months, they are perfect breeding grounds for vast swarms of mosquitoes that have largely become resistant to chemical insecticides. For all their immunity to man-made controls, though, the insects may yet meet their match - all because an imaginative University of California scientist has gone back to nature and enlisted the aid of a voracious and prolific South American fish...
Denis Hillier, a middle-aged spy looking forward to retirement, embarks on his last mission: to kidnap a turncoat British scientist named Roper, who is cooking rocket fuel for Russia. Adventures both sexual and gastronomic occur en route, for Hillier is a gluttonous satyr. Men die bloodily, some of them propelled into the hereafter by Hillier himself. The mission fails, not for want of Hillier's trying, but because his quarry refuses to go back...
Hillier, too, has his private Gethsemane. A nominal Catholic, like the scientist, he plays the espionage game as a man who has withdrawn from both sides-a disillusioned and cynical neutralist, proud of his prowess in bed and at table. Aboard a ship bearing him to a Russian Black Sea port, Hillier gorges himself at both. In a stateroom, he literally tangles with an extraordinarily supple Indian girl who is an expert at the extracurricular forms to which the Kama Sutra is only a primer. In the dining room, an eating contest with another passenger becomes the most hilarious...
...these activities are Hillier's veils, and soon they must reveal his deepening moral crisis. Once behind the Iron Curtain, he finds Roper and discovers that the scientist did not turn his coat after all: he was shanghaied. Furthermore, nobody really wants him: neither the Russians, who accepted him only as a useful political pawn, nor the English, who jobbed him for much the same reason. Hillier also finds that nobody wants him either. He was sent to Russia so that an assassin, hired by his own intelligence agency, could erase a mind already too full of dangerous secrets...