Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horde of Locusts. Kontum is not waiting idly. Each night the garrison's 105-mm. howitzers pound the surrounding hills, shellbursts alternating with flares dropped by patrolling C-123s, which illuminate the jungle fronds. When guerrillas probe the perimeter wire, alarm gongs bang, trumpets sound and tin cans tied to the endless concentric coils of barbed wire rattle. By day life goes on. In the French seminary, 50 sandal-clad Vietnamese and French priests keep to their prayer schedules. Sixteen American Protestant scholars continue compiling alphabets and grammars for some 48 Montagnard tribal languages...
Died. Ted Snyder, 84, Tin Pan Alleyman, sometime collaborator with Irving Berlin, and composer of Who's Sorry Now? and Sheik of Araby (which he wrote for Rudolph Valentino); charter member with Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa in 1914, of ASCAP; of heart disease; in Encino, Calif...
...complainers are mostly the left-leaning writers and thinkers of Group 47, whose informal club includes such bestselling writers as Novelist Günter Grass (The Tin Drum) and Playwright Rolf Hochhuth (The Deputy). They think that Willy Brandt and his Socialists would be a welcome change. Grass is currently on a campaign tour for Brandt. Twenty-five leading writers have contributed to a campaign book entitled Pleadings for a New Government. Grass's contribution was a partisan poem, Hochhuth's an essay in pseudo economics arguing that while Germany's rich are getting richer, the proletarians...
Ships on Air. From such far-out ideas come down-to-earth breakthroughs. It was only ten years ago that Christopher Cockerell, an English engineer, reversed the suction on a household vacuum cleaner, stuck the hose through the bottom of an open-ended tin can, watched the can float-and got the idea for the hovercraft. Today's hovercraft are amphibious vessels that glide across land or sea a few inches above the surface, supported on jets of air around the perimeter of the hull. Two weeks ago, Swedish Lloyd and the Swedish American lines signed a deal...
...Allen has written a small flat role for himself and fleshed it out with perhaps a dozen workable gags. The rest of the dialogue is doggedly juvenile, so Director Clive Donner whips it into a frenzy, rummaging eclectically through a whole range of comedy styles, like a man tying tin cans to the tale of an old torn...