Word: thor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within a week. I thought he was crazy; I was wrong. "The Ballad of the Green Berets" sold something over two million copies, and brought fame and fortune to a 26-year-old high school drop-out named Barry Sadler, who has a son called Thor and a smart-aleck grin like that kid in your homeroom who used to shoot craps during morning announcements...
...brother Michael, 8, on The Great Slaughter, a treatise on man's inhumanity to beast. Young Bobby already knows most of the basics about wildlife just from watching his own private animal kingdom at home in Mc-Lean, Va., where he tenderly harbors a scaly tegu named Thor, an iguana, two hawks, six chickens, two geese, six golden pheasants and assorted turtles and frogs, to say nothing of the family's five dogs and four horses. He used to have a fierce, 31-ft. Oriental dragon. "But the dragon ate the chameleons, and then...
...country?" Highest Rank. No such country. The present has deservedly rewarded Nabokov, now 67, whose novels in English-The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Pnin, Lolita and Pale Fire-have placed him in the highest rank of contemporary writers. These books stimulated a demand for the au thor's total work, so that most of his earlier Russian novels have now completed the journey into translation...
Speed in no way compromises thor oughness. Dr. Morris Collen, coordina tor of the program, reports that fully half of the 40,000 patients seen annually have "clinically significant abnormali ties, conditions which the physicians will want to treat." Kaiser's cost is approx imately $25 per patient, and the health-plan members pay virtually nothing...
Mistaken Identity. It was this quality of light that enabled Thoré-Bürger to bring recognition to Vermeer's art where others had failed. Long a victim of mistaken identity, Vermeer had been confused with Jan van der Meer of Utrecht; moreover, his paintings had often been attributed to a better-known Delft artist, Pieter de Hooch, who also painted immaculate Dutch interiors. But in the late 19th century, the French impressionists, seeking to present light through color rather than a painted effect, were astonished to discover Vermeer's virtuosity with the same technique two centuries...