Word: fishhooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over-the-transom divorce evidence than avenging mink-clad corpses. TV Eyes, says San Francisco's crew-cut professional Eye, Hal Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone tap, the hidden recorder, the infrared camera, the fishhook microphone (which can be cast as lightly as a dry fly onto an upper-story windowsill). On TV, the Eyes shoot the joint up like maniacs, or "they all throw their revolvers away and use their fists and are too damn smart. A good Private Eye doesn...
...version, with the coronation of Richard's elder brother Edward IV. The camera peers at the proceedings past a huge head of glossy black hair. The head turns, and suddenly a long, coldly intellectual face stares straight at the spectator with an eye that catches him like a fishhook. This is Richard-lame leg, hunchback, "weerish withered arme" and all-and he is a frightening man indeed. A minute later the moviegoer is alone with the monster. "Why," he confides, as the thin lip writhes with an impish humor, "I can smile, and murder while I smile...
...with curing an illness that kept him bedridden in childhood, has said that he will not be wearing the patch forever. *By unhappy coincidence, ex-Budget Director Douglas also wears an eyepatch. In 1949, while U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was casting for salmon in West Hampshire, snagged a fishhook in his left eye. He adopted the patch to avoid double vision-incidentally inspiring the advertising campaign of the Man in the Hathaway Shirt. * To return to Washington in December, 1954 as Ike's special assistant on foreign economic policy...
...search for the source of the Orinoco River has long been a favorite obsession among explorers of South America's jungles. The jaundiced waters of the third largest river in South America sprawl across the breadth of Venezuela like a gigantic fishhook. The shank fans out into a delta just below Trinidad. The barb is buried far to the southwest, deep in the tangled wilderness of the Parima Mountains. For the past four centuries adventurers and scientists have hunted its headwaters...