Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOOKS Best Reading THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. The facts of Joe Kennedy's career, the fortunes he made in oil and real estate, and his swift conversion of money into power for himself and his sons need no embellishment; his life is a blueprint for the wheeler-dealer and the kingmaker...
...took just 30 seconds for the Supreme Soviet, Russia's moot parliament, to dispose of the absent Deputy for the Moscow district of Kalinin. In two swift, silent shows of 1,400 hands, without a single dissent or abstention, the assemblage in the Kremlin ratified Nikita Khrushchev's dismissal by the party Presidium last October as First Party Secretary and Premier. But except for a change in style, the Khrushchev spirit was very much present...
...years ago, Chicago papers seemed equally determined to convict a suspected killer. TERRORIST BARRY COOK ADMITS SLAYING WOMAN IN PARK ran one banner headline that was only part of a noisy press chorus demanding swift court retribution for the crime. This sort of coverage did not abate until Cook's trial jury, obviously unresponsive to newspaper suggestion, acquitted the defendant...
...swift and agile fish get caught in slow-moving nets? They simply get tired. This seaborne secret was documented recently when skindivers of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries hung on the mouth of a big submerged trawl and took movies of fish as they were caught. The net moved through the water as slowly as 2 m.p.h., a pace that most fish can exceed with ease. But the skindivers learned that, fast as fish are, most of them are too lazy to take evasive measures. They swim languidly for a while to keep ahead of the net, but eventually...
...fear I've written far, far too many lyrics." A Bit Far. Still he goes on writing them like a mad dog in the midday sun. He has a coop above Lake Geneva in Switzerland and another pad in Jamaica. The Jamaica setting is apparently perfect for glib, swift masters. The late Ian Fleming, after lolling in Coward's guesthouse for a time, bought his own place near by. "God, I miss him," says Coward. "He was so fabulously intelligent. Nobody quite appreciates how very, very good his descriptive passages were. His plots went...