Word: scorpion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half-finished drinks. If such is the state of contemporary student writing, one may wonder why the publications make the effort at all. But, of course, there is always the chance that this publication will be the exception, and on this reasonable premise we now have the new Scorpion, published at Adams House...
...between. Some 15,000 Arab troops effectively dominate the Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal provinces, restraining rebel terrorism there to what amounts to pinpricks. Control of the southernmost province of Equatoria (lat. 5° N.), however, rides a seesaw. A Mau Mauist organization known as Any a Nya (Scorpion), armed with Communist machine guns smuggled in originally for Congolese Simbas and reinforced by fugitive Simbas, ambushes Arab patrols, murders suspected Arab sympathizers, and spreads havoc through most of the countryside. Last week the rebels announced that they had attacked a river steamer at Tawfigia and destroyed a company...
...SCORPION ON STONE by Gwyn Griffin. 219 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...over the U.S., pet lovers are buying what the trade calls "exotics." Rover, Tabby and Budgie are as popular as ever, but they are being crowded by Huggy the boa constrictor, Beaky the vulture, Stinger the scorpion and many other creepy, crawly, slinky, slithery creatures that once belonged in zoos...
...helped James Bond narrowly escape death by drowning, poison, bullets, knives, giant squids, falling cliffs, steam, rocket exhaust, auto wreck, buzz saw, scorpion bite, lethal plants, suffocation and surfeit of women. But there was no one to reciprocate for Ian Fleming, last week, in his apartment at Sandwich, where he was holidaying after reading proof on his latest, and last, James Bond adventure, The Man With the Golden Gun. He suffered a second heart attack, and four hours after he reached a hospital at Canterbury, Ian Fleming died. He had already spoken his own epitaph. "Oh," he said...