Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumors began to fly that Sophie was no longer melancholy. Last week in Athens, a 101-gun salute boomed out from Mount Lycabettus, and the Greek court made it official: Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Prince of Asturias and Infante of Spain, would marry Princess Sophie...
...more interested in terrorizing the world's citizens than in preserving their health. Bluntly, the government declared that Russian scientists were working on "superpowerful" bombs in the 100-megaton range (the equivalent of 100 million tons of TNT), made to fit rockets "similar to those used by Major Y. A. Gagarin and Major G. S. Titov for their unrivaled cosmic flights." In case somebody missed the point, Russia's army newspaper Red Star explained that nuclear weapons of such power could wipe out anyone anywhere: "No super-deep shelter can save them from an all-shattering blow from...
...past ten months, 15 women-British, Canadian, American, Kenyan-have been running a school at the Y to teach Kenyan women the elaborate manners of diplomacy. Some women who attend are well versed in Western ways, but many arrive with no more social accomplishments than scratching and giggling. The Y.W.C.A. instructors patiently help them through the tangles of Western underwear, show them how to manipulate knives and forks instead of dipping their hands into their food. One instructor climbs into a bathtub and demonstrates how to take a bath. Students find the toilet the most fascinating of all Western gadgets...
CRIPPLE MAH AND THE NEW ORDER (23 I pp.)-C. Y. Lee-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...satire of the Mao regime is being written in China-not the likeliest of propositions-it cannot bear much resemblance to this burlesque by C. Y. Lee, the Chinese-American author of The Flower Drum Song. Lee's view is light, slight and frequently funny, but it is that of an established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy...