Word: vanguards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NOBLE PROFESSION, by Pierre Boulle (255 pp.; Vanguard; $3.95), proves once again that French Novelist Boulle owes his fictional allegiance to a one-track mmcl-his own. His only weapon is irony; his heroes seem forever doomed to self-deceit, to rationalizing their weaknesses until they seem like virtues. In The Bridge over the River Kivai, a Colonel Blimp hurt his own, his men's and his nation's cause by raising boneheadedness to the level of character. In Face of a Hero, a lawyer transformed personal cowardice into a basis for public esteem. In the present book...
...months to the project, consulted occasionally with Artist Artzybasheff, and produced seven lively models-made of Styrofoam with a papier-maché; and plastic covering. The wide-eyed, camera-wielding Tiros caricature became a wonderfully evocative, 8-ft.-wide monster; and the nose on the 8-ft.-long Vanguard III would arouse the envy of even Los Angeles Neighbor Jimmy Durante...
Next day a tight-lipped Bunche headed for the airport to await the plane that would fly him back to Léopoldville. When he got to the field, he found a platoon of gun-toting troops, apparently ready to riddle the plane if it proved to contain the vanguard of arriving U.N. troops. Nearby were trucks and oil drums to be used as runway obstacles if more planes arrived. Sensing a delicate moment, Bunche grabbed the airport radio microphone and asked the pilot of the plane heading for the field whether any soldiers were on board. Assured there were...
...many battlewagons as the world's other top two powers combined. In 1918, before the sun commenced to set on British seapower, the Royal Navy boasted 50 battleships. Last week, without ceremony, the navy sailed the last of Her Majesty's battleships, the 44,500 ton Vanguard, from Portsmouth up to the Clyde to be broken up for scrap...
Commissioned in 1946, Vanguard never fired a shot in anger, and her last commander agreed unabashedly that "battleships are out of date." But for Britain's old salts it was a mournful moment; since the first Vanguard fought against the Armada, twelve Royal Navy ships have borne the name. And Vanguard herself seemed to have an apprehension about where she was headed. In Portsmouth harbor she slipped away from four tugs, slewed around sharply and ran bow up on a mudbank, where she clung so stubbornly that it took an hour...