Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There's Good News Tonight (Doubleday; $3.95) by Gabriel Heatter. The noted radio soothsayer, with some editorial assistance, provides an unnecessary autobiography, which follows the standard matrix for a show-business memoir: Rags. Youthful Striving, Nervous Breakdown. Riches, Philosophy. The last is summed up thus: "Each, in his way, packs his bag and goes on. It's a golden journey, strewn with rocks and jewels. Who would have it any other...
...massacre at Chenoua Beach climaxed the worst week of rebel terrorism in Algeria since June 1957. It stemmed from rebel rage at the breakdown six weeks ago of preliminary truce talks between France and the F.L.N. Since then, French officers had spread the word among Algeria's many uncommitted Moslems that "the F.L.N. is finished." The massacre at Chenoua might not endear the rebels to their fellow countrymen - many Moslems were appalled - but it was meant to prove cold-bloodedly that the F.L.N. was not yet to be counted...
...order to save money for a model bungalow, refuses to sleep any longer with Humphrey Place, and he, in turn, leaves her at the altar. Mr. Weedin, the personnel manager, looks into Dougal's bewitched eyes and at "the alarming bones of his hands" and suffers a nervous breakdown. Mr. Druce himself, suspecting that Dougal is a police informer in alliance with Merle Coverdale, kills his mistress by stabbing her nine times with a corkscrew. Dougal at about that time flees Peckham Rye for Africa, where he makes a living selling portable tape recorders to witch doctors...
...liberal-conservative realignment, a Republican-type party might profit. Among the minority (44%) of voters who understood the liberal-conservative division. Gallup pollsters last week found more prospective conservatives (45%) than prospective liberals (43%). Omitting the undecided (12%), conservatives (51%) edged liberals (49%) nationally, with this region-by-region breakdown...
...years. Just one hour and 55 minutes later, as the first wave of Japanese bombers swept over Pearl Harbor, Allen had the biggest exclusive of his life. Over at the rival Advertiser, then the only Sunday paper in town, the presses were out of action with a mechanical breakdown. Star-Bulletin Editor Allen, routing an emergency staff from bed, weaving stories from wire dispatches and eyewitness accounts, put out three extra editions before the tragic day was done...