Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East China. His tough, agile infantrymen chewed up dozens of Nationalist divisions. But for all his military success, Chen was afflicted with what the Chinese Communists call "liberalism"-a certain in ability to adapt to Mao's hard-boiled personal asceticism. Chen prefers Western suits to the stern, closed-collar pajamas affected by Mao, Chou and Liu, plays go (a Japanese game of strategy) like an expert-though one Japanese master found him "too hasty." In Shanghai some years ago, Chen's friendliness with Chekiang Opera Star Yuan Hsueh-feng was the talk of the Bund. He once...
...Great, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist) plus, it would seem, any other celebrity ready to trade top billing for a chance to play holy charades. Jesus cures a cripple (Sal Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters). He bears his cross under the stern eye of Roman Centurion John Wayne. Veronica is Carroll Baker, who mops his brow, and-in a labored salute to brotherhood-he gets a helping hand from Simon of Cyrene (Sidney Poitier). Such coy vignettes add star power but not stature. They merely bolster the evidence that Western...
...fictionalizing the space age, it traces a handful of Axis rocket engineers from Peenemünde, where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened...
...billion for the first time since 1939, and France's Charles de Gaulle was intent on making more mischief for the dollar (see WORLD BUSINESS). Johnson's advisers divided into "Hawks," who wanted to take strong measures to counter the payments deficit, and "Doves," who felt that stern restrictions would damage the nation. Johnson heeded the Doves, among them Commerce Secretary John Connor and President Donald C. Cook of American Electric Power Co., a prime Johnson adviser who will become Secretary of the Treasury this spring when Douglas Dillon leaves...
...movers and shakers are other black humorists, many with similar targets. The life-denying mindlessness often evident in modern psychiatric care got savagely raked in Ken Kesey's brilliant, creepy first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Television got its lumps in Golk, Richard G. Stern's novel about a TV show that puts unsuspecting people on camera. The Negro problem was the subject of Warren Miller's recent The Siege of Harlem, a sly, timely pseudo history of how Harlem became a separate nation. Some writers, of course, take up black humor...