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BEYOND THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION (182 pp.)-Erich Fromm-Trident Press...
...Medium-Range D.H. 121 Trident: Three jet engines are placed in the rear of Hawker Siddeley's radical Trident, now being flight-tested. It is designed to carry 79 passengers, cruise at 606 m.p.h. and range to 1,000 miles, ideal for travel within Europe and the Middle East. Price: $3.6 million. British European Airways has ordered 24 Tridents, and expects to put them in service in 1963; but Hawker Siddeley must sell at least 76 more to break even. This will take some doing, because the Trident is in nose-to-nose competition with the new medium-range...
...fish-rich waters, deep blue grottoes to plumb, and long stretches of land to walk. Thoroughly pleased with the setting, the week-long International Underwater Convention stayed submerged long enough to let 24 spearsmen from seven countries compete for the underwater fishing prize, surfaced to present its annual "Golden Trident" awards to such notables as Dr. Jacques Piccard (for his underwater research) and to Sophia Loren (for being the first movie actress "to face the risks and discomforts of taking her art under water...
Most characteristic of Bahian art were wrought-iron figures of the dread god Exú, pronounced eh-shoe (see color page). As with other Bahian folk figures, Exú suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...
...women (Miss Sal, Lulu, Shady Lady), men (Jim Jam, Little Bub, Crafty Chris), in memeriam (Last Cent, Mama's Mink, Overtime), music (Rock 'n' Roll, Intermezzo), the sea (Blue Water, Sea Legs); little boats get little names (Yap Yap, Pixie); big ones get big names (Delphine, Trident, Chanticleer); and many are just hopefully witty (Tireless, Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than 35,000). Their women wear...