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...bullet pierced his back, plowed down through his chest, fractured his right wrist, and lodged in his left thigh. A photographer looked up at a seven-story building on the corner-the Texas School Book Depository, a warehouse for textbooks-and caught a glimpse of a rifle barrel being withdrawn from a window on the sixth floor...
...Barrel. Packaging made Nabisco. The company began 65 years ago as an amalgamation of regional cracker bakers, quickly dominated the industry by taking the cracker out of the barrel and putting it into a box as the original Uneeda Biscuit. Nabisco now sells its 139 kinds of cookies and crackers in 307 different packages. Raymond Loewy designs them, and they are carefully test-marketed to gauge the lure of their colors, shapes and such gimmicks as "reclosable linings...
Malamud's own case is less clear. Ever since The Assistant and his collection of stories The Magic Barrel, which won the National Book Award in 1959, Malamud has been recognized as a unique voice in U.S. literature. He catches his vulnerable characters in lurid movement and mid-passion-as if frozen in the light of a signal flare. His ear for Jewish idiom is unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive...
...TIME'S excellent portrait of Lord Home clearly indicated that, far from having scraped the bottom of the barrel, Britain's Tories have reached into the top of the top drawer for a leader who seems to be a sparkling blend of Benjamin Disraeli and Adlai Stevenson...
...that many Italians scoffingly dubbed him the "interim pope." But in one year on the job as chief of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (E.N.I.), Marcello Boldrini, a former professor of statistics, has proved as aggressively expansive as Mattei. Traveling from the Volga to the Congo, Boldrini has won a barrel of new business for E.N.I. and spearheaded Italian commercial penetration abroad...