Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SEASHORE STORY by Taro Yashima (Viking; $4.95). An ancient Japanese tale of a fisherman who went away to the bottom of the sea on the back of a turtle and stayed so long that no one remembered him when he returned. Illustrated by the author with beguiling watery pictures...
...writer's or editor's inspiration may be only a glance away. These girls, who are researchers, secretaries and clerks, show up (nicely) for work every day in their minis. They raise few eyebrows at the office, but one girl was quite an attraction when she went home to Sioux Falls. None of them wear what the story describes as the "Hello, Officer" mini. But Writer Marshall Burchard's wife does...
...forces of the U.S. against foreign governments entirely on their own authority, and only since 1950 have Presidents regarded themselves as having authority to commit the armed forces to full-scale and sustained warfare." The result of the "erosion" of Congress's control over war and peace, it went on, is that the President "now exercises something approaching absolute power over the life or death of every living American-to say nothing of millions of other people all over the world." Until limits are placed on the Chief Executive's powers, the committee warned, "the American people will...
There was a time when the only practical cooperation between East African countries went no further than a common mail and railway service. Zambia's eagerness to join the treaty could only be a prestigious vote for the newly revived unity efforts. Coming so close on the heels of the Conference it could not help but be associated with the movement sparked by the Kinshasa meeting...
...perfect way to enact a final exorcism of the demons, rid his mind and body once-and-for-all of drugs and liquor. Backed by a family fortune which had previously sustained his drug habit, Rooks cast himself in the lead part (giving himself a pseudonym, Russell Harwick), and went to work in 16mm, deciding 6 months later to do it up proud and shoot professionally in 35mm. Only a few of the original shots remain, indicated by a black strip of masking on screen right-or-left revealing that the 16mm frame was blown up double...