Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where Love Has Gone, Robbins (7) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (6) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (4) 7. The Prize, Wallace (5) 8. The Thin Red Line, Jones (8) 9. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (9) 10. The Reivers, Faulkner (10) NONFICTION 1. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 2. Silent Spring, Carson (1) 3. The Rothschilds, Morton (3) 4 My Life in Court, Nizer (4) 5! O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (5) 6 The Blue Nile, Moorehead (7) 7. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (6) 8. Final Verdict, St. Johns 9. Letters From the Earth, Twain...
...would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy traffic; by train, it would take 31 minutes...
Hunched & Silent. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who sees qualities in Menon invisible to others, was reluctant to fire his friend of 30 years. At first he tried to pacify critics by taking over the Defense Ministry himself and downgrading Menon to Minister of Defense Production. Nehru's task was not made any easier when Menon arrogantly told newsmen, "I am still a member of the Cabinet and still sitting in the Defense Ministry." Army officers, the press, politicians and delegations from Nehru's ruling Congress Party all joined in demanding that Menon...
Nehru pleaded, accurately enough, that he too was responsible for India's defense policy failures. But at last he gave in. As Menon sat near by, hunched and silent, Nehru told a meeting of Congress Party M.P.s that he was accepting Menon's resignation from the Cabinet. The legislators cheered. Menon's defiant last words: "I still have a bright political future." No one believed...
...suiter has been put on the market by the Wurlitzer Co., De Kalb, Ill. Like the Micro-TV, it operates on house current or a battery pack. With a 64-note keyboard, the all-transistor piano can be played via built-in loudspeaker or earphones (for silent practicing), has controls to vary the tone from Hawaiian guitar to vibraphone to glockenspiel. With case, bench, battery pack and earphones, approximate price...