Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, edited by Joseph Wechsberg. In a style as spare and striking as Dashiell Hammett's, dogged Nazi-Hunter j Simon Wiesenthal recounts the career that brought 800 war criminals-including Adolf Eichmann-to justice, and made of Wiesenthal a kind of Intercontinental...
...Chicago public library?where he spent his spare time while on a summer job inspecting telephone switchboards?McDonnell chanced upon an obscure book about psychic emanations: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by English Essayist Frederic W. H. Myers. It turned his interest abidingly toward the occult. "I was fascinated with the idea that this realm of the mind and soul and survival after bodily death ought to be susceptible to investigation through a scientific approach," says McDonnell. Rebuffed by one of his Princeton professors when he asked for help in such an inquiry, the eager student attended...
...earth 800 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann and, most recently, the wartime commander of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, Franz Stangl (TIME, March 10). In this calmly chilling memoir, Wiesenthal contrasts monstrous murderers with gumshoe detective techniques in a manner as spare and striking as anything Dashiell Hammett wrote. Where Hammett's world was big-city crime, Wiesenthal's is the broad scope of human injustice and horror: he becomes a kind of Intercontinental...
...Lodge, who saw U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam rise from 16,000 to 420,000 during his current 19-month tour, Johnson tapped Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker, 72. A courtly, starched-collar Vermonter who in 1951 left the sugar industry for diplomatic duty, Bunker is a tall, spare man who is known as a deft negotiator. As Ambassador to Argentina, he dealt with Dictator Juan Peron during a period of rabid Argentine anti-Americanism, had the satisfaction of seeing him exiled. In other troubleshooting assignments, he served as a mediator between Indonesia's Sukarno and The Netherlands...
...they staked out the U.S. embassy, the airport, Rome's Cavalieri Hilton Hotel and the home of U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick Reinhardt. But Svetlana was nowhere to be found, and Washington, which was be ginning to have second thoughts about the whole affair, was keeping quiet. Finally, to spare the U.S. further embarrassment, Svetlana agreed to go to Switzerland instead and, four days after her Rome arrival, flew on to Geneva. Stalin's daughter, said the Swiss government, "has informed us that she needs a rest, and we have given her a tourist visa for a limited period...