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Mahoney's polite came under attack from Vellucci who charged "He just wants to keep the guy from M.I.T. and give the axe to Harvard. The big bosses at M.I.T. told him 'vote for Lunn or we'll get rid of you.'" Mahoney is a professor at M.I.T...
...remaining replacement series are game shows. The Generation Gap from David Susskind's Talent Associates, pits a team of three teen-agers against a trio of adults. The kids, it turned out, could not identify Eddie Cantor or the FCC. The fogeys didn't know an "axe" (a guitar) from a hole in the ground. Mostly the show just proved that people who appear on such programs have an intelligence gap. Finally, ABC is adding a prime-time version of Let's Make a Deal, the afternoon show in which hysterical housewives bid against each other...
Figures first. The bus costs $56 a night and the fare is 10 cents a ride. Mr. Leahy, the man responsible for articulating the decision to axe the bus, claims, "We've been losing $20 to $30 every night." What his figures do not tell you, though, is that the bus conversely has been earning $26 to $36 every night, meaning that 130 to 180 people ride the bus nightly (assuming all riders ride round-trip), and that is still quite...
...account of a soldier executed as an example to the Kaiser's troops. Expelled as a Jew by Hitler in 1933, Zweig spent 15 years in Palestine, where he wrote The Crowning of a King, a tale of intrigue and diplomacy enveloping the German General Staff, and The Axe of Wandsbek, a bitter indictment of Nazi Germany. Yet Zweig always regarded himself as a German and Socialist first and a Jew second, was persuaded "in 1948 to return to East Germany, where he became a cultural ornament of the Communist regime, even served a term in the Volkskammer (Parliament...
...OBVIOUS that the villain of the story is They. Mrs. Ellmann does a good job of pinning down the general view of femininity; she even manages to grind her axe gently. But instead of explaining why the view exists and how it affects real women she trails off in feeble optimism. She argues that writing and opinions are moving toward a mode of indecision, a non-judging, antiabsolutist, amoral, particularized view of life in which no form the species can take is not somehow acceptable and in which the artist's aim is to become rather than to judge...