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Although his wife complained during the career-shattering crisis of 1956 that the Suez Canal seemed to cascade through their Downing Street drawing room, Sir Anthony Eden, 64, renewed by his recent peerage (TIME, July 14), was no longer afraid to go near the water. Honoring the bard-blessed stream that runs through his longtime Warwickshire constituency, the ex-Prime Minister selected "Earl of Avon" as his new title. To his son Nicholas, 30, will go a courtesy designation. Viscount of Royal Leamington Spa, to commemorate a last resort that has inspired more dowagers than iambs...
...file of young girls dressed in blue jumpers and white blouses, their arms laden with daffodils, trooped across Manhattan's fashionable upper East Side. The girls marched into Central Park, gathered at the statue of William Shakespeare, knelt, and sang Hark, Hark the Lark in homage to the Bard...
...Renoir-were foreigners, and almost all came from Bouvier-land. For the rest, along with Mary Cassatt, John Audubon and Childe Hassam, there were some art ists who had scarcely been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...
...deterrent missiles - the mobile, solid-fueled Polaris and Minuteman -which now carry warheads of one-half megaton, v. an estimated eight megatons for Soviet ICBMs. Testing would also speed development of a next-generation "neutron bomb." Now on the drawing boards, that weapon is designed to bom bard a specific area with showers of le thal, invisible neutron "bullets." Because its fusion reaction is to be triggered by conventional explosives instead of "dirty" fission, there is much less blast or radioactive contamination-so that the bombarded area is left intact and friendly troops could occupy it. Furthermore, neutron weapons would...
...Playwright Peter Ustinov were to ad-lib a novel on the stage or before a TV camera, it might turn out very well. With his wit, his storyteller's flair and his crafty talent for wedding the ridiculous to the dramatic, he might easily become an important prose bard. But Ustinov wants to write. While he did reasonably well in his engaging 1957 comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, he failed badly last year in his book of short stories. Add a Dash of Pity. To his credit, Ustinov refuses to quit: he has written a first novel...