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Alas for science fiction! Science has caught up with it, or it has caught up with science. Except for low-grade space opera, there is not much of the good old stuff around. To fill her seventh annual S-F anthology. Judith Merril scraped the bottom of the barrel, and, by her own admission, few of the 32 short stories, poems, cartoons and other oddments that she assembled are science fiction. James Blish, a drug industry public relations man, writes In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag, which is praise for wonder drugs to come. In High Barbary, Lawrence Durrell...
...pulling their five ministers out of the government and demanding that Adenauer fire Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, the man blamed by the F.D.P. and others for the arrest of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and four top executives of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. But as it turned out, the barrel-chested Bavarian had no intention of bowing out of the Cabinet gracefully...
...unequal size, skill and equipment. The Chinese force of some 110,000 men was commanded by General Chang Kuo-hua, 54, a short, burly veteran of the Communist Party and Communist wars, who well understands Mao Tse-tung's dictum, "All political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." His army is made up of three-year conscripts from central China, but its officers and noncoms are largely proven cadres who served with distinction in the Korean war. The infantry is armed with a Chinese-made burp gun with not very great accuracy but good fire power...
...jumps higher; opening-night suburbanites could watch U.S. Team Captain William Steinkraus win the nerve-stretching ''Democrat'' Memorial Challenge Trophy* and still catch the midnight train home. Thomas also pepped up the show with a rodeo touch: cowgirls racing quarter horses around a cloverleaf barrel course. Another innovation almost anyone could have anticipated: a class for Shetland ponies. No entry named Macaroni though...
...best to pep him up. Long before the trial was over, writes Adela, Darrow was assured of acquittal; but he almost convicted himself by making a two-day speech to the jury. Darrow wept so much that his sleeves looked as if they had been "plunged into a rain barrel." Obviously piqued that Darrow's reputation outshines daddy's, Adela claims that Darrow was guilty and should have gone to jail, though hardly anyone else agrees...