Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cable & Cannon. Not all the cameras in Philharmonic Hall are permanent installations. Many will be brought in by whatever network is covering a particular event. But the receptacles are there for plugging in the equipment wherever it is needed, and no longer will miles of cable snake down aisles to trip the unwary...
British border patrols round up the "illegal immigrants" by the hundreds, but 20% of the border crossers slip through the dragnet, aided by relatives in Hong Kong and by say-tau (literally, snake heads). The say-tau sneak into the hills across the frontier and, for a price, supply the refugees with city clothing to replace their conspicuous peasant garb and with information about the safest routes into the city. Captured refugees are herded into a processing camp, questioned, fed, and then sent back across the frontier to the mainland. This month, more than 30,000 have been sent back...
...PAUL B. ECKLAND Ste. Foy, Que. > Both cobra and mongoose survived. Had the snake charmer allowed the fight to go to the finish, Rikki-tikki-tavi, as any Kipling fan knows, would...
...intellectual teaser in the best Huvley tradition. It is when Huxley is undertaking to describe the spiritual Himalayas of his fictional Utopias that his prose, always as smooth as yak butter, begins to smell like the same spread. To cut some of the butter, Huxley even provides a snake in his paradise, a local fascist princeling who advocates things like fast cars, Progress, Values, Oil and True Spirituality. In the end, he manages to organize a revolution against Pala's benevolent philosopher rulers, and "the work of 100 years is destroyed in a single night." Island, the work...
...evening. None of you know how tough it is to have to drink milk three times a day." He used the occasion to return the press-conference barbs thrown frequently at him, as at President Eisenhower, by Newswoman Sarah McClendon. "I saw my wife's picture watching a snake charmer in India," Kennedy said. "As soon as I learn Sarah Mc-Clendon's favorite tune, I'm going to play it." He dealt deftly with another frequent press critic, New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, and with Washington's Metropolitan Club, which does not admit Negroes...