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...Odell, 17, is one of the ablest scholars ever produced at Denver's big East High School, with College Board scores that put him in the nation's top 2%. Out of a possible 800, average scores are around 500. Odell's were...
...These young men are the finest, the best trained, the ablest on their feet, that it has been our pleasure to listen to," declared Justice Whittaker, after hearing Charles C. Collins, Jr. and Thomas A. Skornia. Their opponents in the Magruder Club were Thomas G. Conway and John M. Wisdom...
...Sobriety is supposed to be Kissinger's great virtue, but how can any reader fail to blanche when he complains: 'A ban extended over a period of years would almost certainly lead to the attrition of our weapons laboratories, whose ablest scientists would be increasingly tempted to concentrate on fields where scientific progress was more promising.' This is tantamount to rejecting disarmament because of projected unemployment in the military. And it is precisely if there are good and valid reasons to reject bans, or disarmament--precisely if well-intentioned people are to be persuaded, that these lines of reasoning...
...test again after a prolonged ban, years might be consumed before it could do so. A nation which had observed the ban might by then have nothing to test. A ban extended over a period of years would almost certainly lead to the attrition of our weapons laboratories, whose ablest scientists would be increasingly tempted to concentrate on fields where scientific progress was more promising. The U.S.S.R., by contrast, is in a position to keep its research staffs together much more easily. Even a strong indication of Soviet violation might therefore leave the United States at a serious disadvantage...
...Magdalene. Rumors have Marlon Brando as Judas, Spencer Tracy as Pontius Pilate. But last week Director George Stevens released the biggest casting news of the Hollywood year: Swedish Actor Max von Sydow, 31, has been chosen to play Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. One of the ablest members of Ingmar Bergman's close-knit film and theater team, Von Sydow was the mysterious hero of The Magician, the God-haunted knight in The Seventh Seal, the avenging father in The Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says Von Sydow, "I thought with horror of Cecil...