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The capital city of Vientiane rang with rumors of a military coup; the Communists under Prince Souphanouvong called for a meeting of the National Assembly, hoping to capitalize on the growing chaos. But Premier Phoui (pronounced Pwee) Sananikone, 55 (TIME, Sept. 1), a muscular and quick-witted six-footer, was...
This novel has more combinations than the daily double. Against a quarter-century backdrop ('30s to mid-50's) are staged three separate plots: 1) the life and loves of Geoffrey Bliss, a brittle-witted English playwright and "four-letter person"; 2) the struggle of adulterous peeress v...
Giant electronic computers can solve difficult mathematical or logical equations in fractions of a second, but in other ways they are mental defectives. They have no imagination or initiative. They do not learn by experience. They cannot listen to human speech or get information out of reference books. Last week...
Cuticle Push. For two years she was a nimble-witted reporter about Manhattan, and then came Hollywood. As for the romance with Fitzgerald, there was more tutelage than toot left in the ailing writer, and he liked to put together lists of required reading, e.g., Byron, Rabelais, the pre-Socratics...
The charm of this book lies in Author Marceau's devotion to his extraordinary characters-a devotion that enables him to make them not merely funny but amazingly human as well. Haughty aristocrat, aping student, money-loving businessman, dim-witted girl-by the time Marceau has done with them...