Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because of the damning lack of discipline. The plot doesn't build because all the elements of the play--the acting, the singing, the music, the set--don't come together into any sort of a strong, whole work. These parts remain separate, and give us a very fragmented evening...
...Murder Plot. To defend the junta's harsh rule, Air Force General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán granted a lengthy interview to TIME'S Benjamin Gate and Rudolph Rauch in his suburban Santiago home. Leigh, 53, the most articulate of the junta's four members, showed Gate and Rauch a Soviet-made automatic rifle that, he said, was part of a leftist cache of weapons. The weapons were smuggled into Chile, presumably for use in "Plan Zeta," a supposed plot to murder top military leaders and rightists. The military did not learn of Plan Zeta...
With four speedy, intricate spy novels behind him, Adam (The Quiller Memorandum) Hall is a small luminary in the genre. In this latest case, Superagent Quiller applies his spectacular professional skills toward the saving of Britain's face in the Middle East. The plot is Hall's most extravagant yet; Quiller takes on two enemy spy groups, the North African desert and a tactical nuclear device. He inhales nerve gas, makes two parachute jumps, and gets pecked by vultures...
...told that the little cornfield on the banks of the Illinois River was strewn with old Indian arrowheads and pottery shards, Northwestern University Archaeologist Stuart Struever decided to do a little spadework, hoping to unearth an ancient Indian settlement. What he found exceeded his wildest expectations. The plot, owned by a farmer named Theodore Koster, may well hold some of the most important archaeological remains ever discovered in North America...
...cent of its black pupils were incorrectly assigned, while a survey of the whole of London showed that 28 per cent of black children--compared to 7 per cent of white children -- were misplaced. Many in Britain's black communities have interpreted these grim statistics as a plot to keep blacks out of Britain's colleges...