Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Planning to be a freezee some day just as Dr. Bedford is, I must voice some objections to "Never Say Die" [Feb. 3]. You call the process of freezing "strange rites," but, as Jessica Mitford has ably pointed out, interment is the method that is eerie. Cryobiology is a young science, but the mass of individuals now planning on being frozen should give it a stimulating boost. Last year predictions ran that it would be 50 years before a mammalian brain would be successfully frozen, but one was successfully frozen and thawed that very year (Nature...
...James H. Bedford, 73, a retired psychology professor dying of cancer, in Glendale, Calif., had decided years ago that he wanted his body preserved by freezing for later revival if possible. He had left $4,200 for a steel capsule and for liquid nitrogen to keep his body frozen at about 200° below zero centigrade. When Bedford died on Jan. 12, his physician, Dr. B. Renault Able, began to pack the body in ice. Members of the Cryonics Society of California arrived to help. They spent eight hours, sending out periodically for more ice, getting the body frozen solid...
...Prospects. Underlying these strange rites was the hope that when cures for cancer are discovered, Bedford's body could be thawed out, cured, and restored to healthy life. This hope has been fostered by Robert C. W. Ettinger, a physics teacher at a Michigan junior college, in his book The Prospect of Immortality (TIME, Sept...
Coat hangs on a double frame-up. A dumb penguin of a waiter (Roddy Mc-Dowall), who wants to cloak the cipher of his existence with something or other, answers an advertisement for an astra khan coat. The man selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted...
Regrettably, Director Frankenheimer occasionally feels obliged to stop racing and start plotting. He has four heroes (James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, Antonio Sabato), all cast as racing drivers. The story purports to describe what they do when they are not driving-and the girls they do it with. The girls (Eva Marie Saint, Francoise Hardy, Jessica Walter) are pretty, but somehow they don't seem all that exciting in a film that focuses so satisfactorily on a different sort of exquisitely classy chassis...