Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. A joyously funny fable about Italian villagers who have a ball keeping their precious vino out of the hands of the Germans during World...
Other shows follow Rockefeller Univer sity Microbiologist James Hirsch on his search for the "Secret of the White Cell," Louisiana Psychologist William Mason in a study of the "Childhood of the Chimpanzee," and Stanford Physi cist Arthur Schawlow on the mysteries of the "Laser - the Light of the Future...
...committee's recommendations have yet to be adopted by the A.B.A.'s house of delegates or fully accepted by the courts. As for the press, the American Society of Newspaper Editors regards the committee report as partly "excellent," but fears that its adoption might invite "secret law enforcement," resulting in "a partially and improperly informed public at the time of serious crime." To that extent, declares the A.S.N.E., the recommendations are "in conflict with the Constitution...
Cloak & Cricket. The double agent is Alexander Kamensky, a minor functionary in the household of an Imperial Russian count living in Paris in the 1900s. Kamensky arranges the murder of czarist leaders, while he fingers his revolutionary comrades for the Czar's secret police. Dame Rebecca hints of his duality, but she is in no hurry to expose him. After all, the effect of a double agent depends partly on the ability to wear his ambiance like a cloak...
...MacLean's The Guns of Navarone and H.M.S. Ulysses would have done. They were tightlipped, quietly efficient men who were repelled by heroics, and obviously wanted nothing more than peace and quiet after their hazardous call to duty ended. In this book, however, MacLean has smashed the mold. Secret Agent Philip Calvert, his new hero, must have got his basic training by watching James Bond movies. Calvert is simply too incredibly dumb to be taken seriously. Assigned to track down pirates in the Irish Sea, Calvert stumbles on the gang right away. But instead of sensibly going for help...