Word: backwardation
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...people were killed at the other end of tremor-prone Sicily 60 years ago. The toll: as many as 500 people dead, more than 1,000 injured and 80,000 left homeless over a 600-square-mile carpet of destruction in one of the Mezzogiorno's most backward regions...
...then flipped a pass to Wing Wayne Connelly. Most of the fans, players and officials in the Bloomington, Minn., arena were too busy following the puck to see exactly what happened to Masterton next. Only a few watched his skates slip out from under him as he toppled backward. His head hit the ice, and blood gushed from his nose and ears. A teammate who rushed to his aid heard Masterton murmur, "Never again. Never again." Then he lost consciousness. Thirty hours later, Bill Masterton died from what doctors described as a "massive brain injury." He was the first player...
...cracking good at puzzle solving that the government employs him to find a cure for the common code used by enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like "I'm a septic tank for the world's ugly secrets...
...immensely aided by a strong supporting cast, notably Lilli Palmer as a sad-eyed, burned-out leftist, and the omnipresent John Gielgud as Sebastian's chief. But good actors need more than each other in order to make a film work, and in the end Naitsabes spelled backward is only a promising idea mishandled. Dab wohs...
...Chill Abroad. "Under the new program," maintains Trowbridge, "everyone is sharing the burden-tourism, Government and trade." Outside of Administration circles, that was a lonely view last week. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful George Romney denounced the balance of payments plan as a "major backward move" from free trade, and insisted that Johnson's proposed restrictions on travel "would create a 'Berlin Wall' separating U.S. citizens from the rest of the Atlantic Community." Despite the Administration's globe-hopping efforts, the reaction from abroad turned almost as chilly...