Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrea Doria's radar picked up the outbound Stockholm (which he did not identify) on the radar screen about 17 miles off Dona's starboard bow. He and his officers watched her closing rapidly, although they did not plot her course. When the ships were three to four miles apart, said the captain, he ordered a 4° turn to port to leave more passing room (see cut). Calamai insisted that the ships were steaming thus starboard to starboard, whereas the Swedes insist that they were port to port. When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing...
...white sash of office. West Point-educated Anastasio Jr. ("Tachito"), 32, commander of the 4,100-man Guardia National, jailed something like 3,000 suspected enemies of the regime, personally tested many of them with a newly imported lie detector,*soon freed all but 300. He unearthed no plot-but the arrests doubtless discouraged any enemy attempt to cash in fast on the assassination...
...Abner is lucky to have Mr. Kidd, for the plot is not strong, there is little acting, and the songs and singing are unexceptional...
...Nicaraguan Cabinet declared a state of siege, but no sign of revolution appeared to make the shooting seem like part of a large plot. Instead, Somoza's elder son Luis, President of Congress, smoothly took on his father's powers, with the complete support of the chief of the Guardia Nacional (army), Anastasio Somoza...
Feature-Writer (A. P.) Charles Mercer wrote his third and best novel after a two-month visit to the Belgian Congo. The book is packed with just the sort of plot that will fill a wide screen (RKO has bought the rights in a quarter-million-dollar deal), and with the mixture of sex and sincerity that appeals to book clubs (it is the Literary Guild choice for October). But the book also has a keenly felt love of place, and reflects deep wonder about the motives of men and women who contrive their own thahus...