Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boat cruised east along Malecon Drive, at times no more than 30 yds. from the sea wall, shot up the Havana Riviera hotel-a favorite of Iron Curtain visitors-and left flames licking from third-floor windows. Farther east along the shore, a second raiding group blasted away at a police station, then at a group of soldiers, who scrambled for cover. To the west, the other boat raked the seaside home of Castro's Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, drawing erratic rifle fire from nearby guards. By the time the attackers turned for home, the confusion...
...surprisingly, the glow has spread to Wall Street. Shares in a formerly obscure company named National Video Corp. jumped from 97⅛ to 111½ in a single day after National announced it was doubling production of color TV tubes to 1,000,000 a year. Last week both Texas Instruments and Polaroid hit new highs on news that they were working together to produce a new, less expensive color tube-even though it may be years before the tube can be marketed. Even TV repairmen are acting bullish again. Reason: color sets are more complicated to keep in order...
...have built a wall of objectivity between us and that day two years ago--not consciously, but necessarily, because so much has changed. Comparisons between Johnson and Kennedy are rare now, not because we forget, but because the pace of events of these years gives such comparisons a tinge of unreality. The gulf is already too wide for us to say with any security what Kennedy would have done, much less thought, about the issues that concern...
...execution are baffled when the corpse count of London's foggy Limehouse district shows an alarming upswing. The victims are strangled with crimson Tibetan prayer scarves, the weapons favored by "a gang of Burmese dacoits." Scotland Yard Man Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) thoughtfully eyes the wall where a death mask of his sworn foe hangs as a trophy. "I dreamt that Fu Manchu was still alive," he muses. "I've been uneasy...
...doer who indefatigably does, and a writer who skillfully writes about what he does. In intervals between the composition of three notable short novels, he has pursued a second profession of anthropology in New Guinea and South America, and has written two fine books (Under the Mountain Wall, The Cloud Forest) about his expeditions there. Now at last the scientist and the artist have collaborated to achieve a large and powerful novel that is simultaneously a tale of violent adventure and a parable in which modern man finds religious rebirth in the green womb of nature...