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...discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists do not. Soon after the un earthing, the discoverer's son, Gilbert Stokesay, boasted in a moment of drunken glee that he had planted the pagan relic himself...
...Patterns) Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight was a taut, discerning glimpse into the shabby world of prizefighting. The plot dealt with an also-ran pug (Jack Palance) who is put out to pasture after in bone-bruising bouts, and finds it jarringly hard to adjust. He is a tough, disfigured blob of flesh who "could take a cannon ball in the face"; but he is also a gentle man, painfully aware of his ugliness. He is bounced around by some seedy managers and hangers-on ("Why is it," asks Trainer Ed Wynn, playing his first straight part...
...student enrolled at Harvard for the first time, the opening months are hectic. But for the foreign student, who must adjust to a change in cluture, the confusion is compounded. The main problems exist on the graduate school level, since most foreign students in the college have spent several years getting "Americanized" before they enroll. Although some of the graduate schools, such as the School of Public Health with its 40 per cent foreign enrollment, have worked out good advisorial systems, others, notably the GSAS, have tended to leave the burden on the student...
...will join 3,000 orphans already being cared for by the French. In the filthy, overcrowded Centres d'Accueil in Saigon, 3,000 more Eurasians are waiting to leave. But most of the 100,000 Eurasians left in Viet Nam will have to stay behind and learn to adjust to their new status. No one hereafter can go to France unless he is legally recognized by a French father, and soldiers are notoriously forgetful...
...Speakers' platforms are gimmicked up to catch both festival and brawl. A teleprompter will be rigged alongside special air-blowers designed to keep speakers cool under the TV glare, and a built-in elevator at the rostrum is being installed to adjust the speakers' height to the cameras (which are hard to move, what with delegates about). Instead of rows of dignitaries clogging the platform, only a few committeemen and VIPs will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large...