Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Blankfort, who has a daughter and three grandchildren now living in Israel, has poured his heart into Behold the Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...
...Military Swarm. At first, the Peruvian government thought that rural police units could handle the Communists. It turned out to be too big a job, and now the army has taken over. The departmental capital of Huancayo, 120 miles east of Lima near the heart of guerrilla activity, swarms with soldiers and military vehicles. On nearby air fields, military transports land with supplies, while helicopters and bomb-laden twin-jet Canberra bombers stand ready for takeoff. In the field some 1,500 soldiers−advised by U.S. anti-guerrilla experts−are committed against the Red terrorists...
...eyed. The trip had turned into a clear scoop for the Press, and the paper savored its revenge. The turnabout, however, had been engineered not by the Press, but by Cleveland TV station WEWS, which had also dispatched a team of newsmen to England. They had avoided the swarm of competitors waiting at Falmouth and had set out to sea from Penzance in a $500-a-day fishing trawler. When they were 265 miles out, they spotted Manry, who invited them aboard. They interviewed him for three and a half hours on sound film, then telephoned the gist of their...
Everybody's Grandfather. The really In do not feel sure they are really in until they have spent an evening or part of it at Menotti's 17th century palazzo. Marvels Menotti: "I am regularly faced by an avalanche of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, who swarm over my house in their wonderful clothes, eating, drinking and cooking spaghetti in my kitchen. Spoleto was conceived as a small ivory turret, but has turned into a Tower of Babel...
...thorough comprehensive knowledge of natural, civil, commercial, and Province Law, will draw upon me the Esteem and perhaps Admiration (tho possibly the Envy too) of the Judges of both Courts, of the Lawyers and of Juries, who will spread my Fame thro the Province, will draw around me a Swarm of Clients who will furnish me with a plentiful Provision for my own Support, and for the Increase of my fortune. I shall be able to defend Innocence, to punish Guilt, and to promote Truth and Justice among mankind...