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Died. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 67, Parisian-born novelist-physician, a tortured ("I cashed in on my neuroses") iconoclast and virulent anti-Semite whose deafening, nightmarish and slang-ridden novels, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, set the salons aboil before his conviction (later rescinded) as a World War II collaborator with the Nazis; of a stroke; in Meudon, France...
...press conferences, TV appearances and proclamations, Governor Orval Faubus tried hard last week to keep segregationist passions aboil. The presence of federal marshals in Little Rock, he cried, is more serious than the presence last year of federal troops. The marshals "will be met in many situations with a cold fury that did not exist before." When a group of Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers protested the closing of Little Rock's four high schools (TIME, Sept. 22), Southern Baptist Faubus accused them of being leftists, "brainwashed by left-wingers and Communists." Not even a stern protest from Methodist clergymen...
...virtuosity of living cells. Under the eye of the microscope they seem placid things. The slimy protoplasm inside them sometimes streams slowly, but little other action is visible. This quietude is an illusion. The typical cell, which may be only one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch long, is aboil with chemical action. It is building thousands of complex compounds and tearing other thousands to bits. It selects nutrients that it wants, and in some mysterious way absorbs them selectively through its outer wall. Tiny, mysterious bodies move through its protoplasm, and inside the nucleus reside the powerful chromosomes, which...
...rapidly that even local mothers call it "Fertile Acres," not even the oldtimers (residents of four years or more) could remember so bitter a fuss. It began simply as an earnest effort to cope with the town's overcrowded schools. But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent whose child has been refused admission to kindergarten...
...below zero and the air was thin enough to set the blood aboil as a New Zealand beekeeper -mountaineer named E. P. Hillary and an experienced Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norkey, struggled out of Camp 8 towards Everest's naked summit (29,002 ft.). Twice their climbing companions had been driven back by blizzards of ice, as had all men who tried before them. This time the mountain yielded...