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...science and languages; Leopold had a rating as "genius" in intelligence tests. Life offered them everything-and what it gave them was a 99-year-plus-life sentence in Illinois prisons. Loeb died in prison, the victim of a fellow convict's straight razor in a shower-bath row framed in homosexualism. Leopold lives on, a sad, heavy-set man of 51, deeply read in many languages, and fascinated by medical research which he works at along with his job as technician in the Stateville prison hospital. Leopold declares, with medical pedantry, that no cell in his body...
...harsh course has superficial plausibility but grave disadvantages. It not only invites a blood bath in Eastern Europe but requires a return to one-man dictatorship in Russia, for it takes a Stalin to impose Stalinism. To go forward with liberalization risks the gradual dismemberment of the satellite empire. But in the end, the sins, fallacies and weaknesses of Soviet Communism may compel the Russians to take that risk, in order to save what they...
Christians have always been puzzled by the Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...save her the nuisance of fittings. Also on order is a new diamond necklace to add to a collection that includes a magnificent, 150-year-old Venetian collar of diamonds and emeralds, besides more ordinary pieces. At night Callas' favorite rite is to soak leisurely in the bath, steep herself in buckets of cologne, and then (after a careful weigh-in on the bathroom scale) to go to bed "feeling absolutely luscious." Perfumed, glowing and gowned in slinky silk, she lies awake late into the night-studying scores while husband
DONALD L. MORSE Bath...