Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIFE. Last week he went out on one more assignment, one that had been chosen carefully to keep him far from trouble. He was on his way to take aerial shots of the Cambodian border when his helicopter picked up an emergency message. Some G.I.s had triggered a booby trap and there were wounded to be evacuated. The chopper landed, and Page ran out to help. Another booby trap exploded, blowing the legs off an Army sergeant, wounding Page in the chest, arm, abdomen and head. Less than three hours later, he was undergoing emergency surgery. At week...
...Gould's "biography." It brings together three of the better Wolfe books from among the 43 that have been published since 1933. In Too Many Cooks (1938), Wolfe is guest of honor at a meeting of top international chefs, one of whom, naturally, gets murdered. Wolfe manages to trap the culprit while discoursing on U.S. haute cuisine and recounting such favorite recipes as sauce printemps and shad roe mousse Pocohontas. Plot It Yourself (1959) offers a revealing satire of the publishing industry as Wolfe uses literary detection to expose a plagiarist-killer. Triple Jeopardy (1952) is a collection...
...price. Angered, Bluhdorn quickly arranged to unload 150,000 Armour shares at $56 to Richard Pistell's General Host Corp., a Manhattan baking and food-freezing firm. Pistell took an option on Bluhdorn's remaining 600,000 Armour shares at $60. Thus Bluhdorn escaped the patrician Prince's trap. With great help from Bluhdorn's stock, Pistell last month captured control of Armour, despite Prince's frantic efforts to resist...
...Tunberg finds that when "people these days say 'Look at the old masters,' they are thinking of a cheap, Tijuana-velvety painting of a bullfighter or a landscape." Such folk may find pictures by even Caravaggio or Michelangelo "too crude and experimental." Tunberg's Neoclassical Drawing Trap was put together as a way of asking, "Do you really know what you are talking about when you praise old masters?" Says Tunberg, who is working on a construction showing a pair of hands making a pie: "Art is not just a scene or a picture any more...
...desecrate all of Paris to pan for the black gold. But the eccentric owner of the cafe, the Countess Aurelia (Angela Lansbury), thwarts these evil malefactors of great wealth. With the aid of two loony cronies and a sewerman (Milo O'Shea), she herds them through a trap door under the cafe into a kind of eternal hell of sewage...