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...Satan Bug. Panic spreads at Station 3, an imposing desert installation surrounded by barbed wire and watchdogs and spoken of in whispers as "the most secret chemical-warfare establishment in this hemisphere." The chief security officer has been murdered. Dr. Baxter is missing. Dr. Oster is a marked man. Worst of all, some crucial flasks have been pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bacteria Berserk | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Armed with Popguns. Authors Maurice G. Baxter, Robert H. Ferrell and John E. Wiltz argue that the mess in Indiana can be matched in most areas of the U.S. Along with James Conant and others, they pin most of the blame on teacher preparation, which consists mainly of a few undergraduate survey courses in history. About one-third of Indiana's history teachers have not taken a single graduate course in the subject. "A teacher who invades the classroom with such a background," the authors warn, "is akin to a soldier entering battle with a popgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: The Trouble Is Teachers | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...spread belongs to Engineer Jack Ryan, 37, design consultant for Mattel, Inc., Los Angeles toy manufacturers, who lives with his wife and two daughters in a house he cannot afford to maintain. It is Actor Warner Baxter's old estate on a hilltop in Bel Air. For keeping the place in running order, between eight and twelve are privileged to call it home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: What a Way to go | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...also his; as Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production, he put up the cloud of Spitfires that saved the day. These and other accomplishments invested him with the quality of living legend. "Positive, bee," wrote a columnist in a Canadian paper, "comparative, Beaver; superlative, Beaverbrook." Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P. and once an Express managing editor, called him a cross "between a magician and an avalanche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: Larger Than Death | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Thursday, April 2 DR. KILDARE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Anne Baxter plays a bereaved mother who takes a ten-year-old heart patient on an unauthorized outing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 3, 1964 | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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