Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of worship but of mere hunting magic. The so-called "realism" of the pictures baffles scholars, because thousands of years later, the Cro-Magnon's successors drew only crude symbolic pictographs. One possible explanation: the paintings are not deliberate copies of the animals but swift tracings of visions such as children see in a flickering fire. Painted by firelight, often one atop another, they have the look of fire shadows. Conceivably the Cro-Magnon artists painted just what they saw looming, falling and gliding along the rough walls of their vast hollow shrine: animals immaterial, yet visible...
...authors of the Tom Swift series ever get around to doing Tom Swift in Siberia, the hero may very well be a fellow like Venka Malishev. Like Tom, Venka is unfailingly brave and resourceful -but he is also a dedicated Communist. In Siberia during the 1920s, young Venka is an agent of the secret police (then known as OGPU). His main job is to hunt down the "bandits," who are fiercely anti-Soviet, have a large part of the population on their side, and live off the country. On skis and on horseback, he scouts the Siberian forests, running down...
Response to the article (the quotation about "abolishing Bolivia" appeared only in the local Latin American edition) was swift and violent: La Paz got annoyed, students got riled up, President Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between...
Live ones, after a 135-m.p.h. plunge into freezing water and the swift current, were few. First Officer Frank S. Hlavacek, 33, clung weakly to a crumpled wing. Passenger Robert Sullivan, 8, bobbed to the surface with his dying mother, looked vainly for his father and two sisters. Stewardess Joan Zeller, 21, floated limp and badly injured. Despite the rescuers' heroic toil, there were only eight survivors -five passengers and three crew. The others-65 in all-died in the crash...
...department of France. Toure charged that the whole idea of a French Community-which came close, but not close enough, to the British Commonwealth-would only continue "our status of perpetual dependence, our status of indignity, our status of insubordination." When De Gaulle stopped off at Conakry on his swift tour of Africa before the referendum, Toure thundered in his presence: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery." Angrily, De Gaulle canceled a diner intime he was to have had with Toure, and the split was final. A few weeks later, 95% of the people of Guinea voted...