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Small Beginning. If admissions men boil at Marson's bare-knuckled attack, few may disagree that essay exams are needed. For just this reason the College Board recently announced a short one (TIME, Nov. 9). To Marson, this is only a small beginning. He calls on colleges to jolt high schools by immediately restoring "honest grading and absolute standards of academic excellence...
...these words the worm suddenly turns; the red ink in the bookkeeper's veins begins to boil; he develops a double-entry personality; he decides to erase this intolerable female, rub out this erroneous entry in the tidy ledger of his life. And the scene in which the meek little monster attempts to execute his resolve-with the help of cigarettes, whisky, open windows, kitchen knives and even an egg whisk-is a grand piece of sustained nonsense...
...quack in a horror movie. A squat, curmudgeonly eccentric, he jounced through London in a cart hauled by three Asiatic water buffaloes. A moatless drawbridge guarded his rambling home at 12 Leicester Square. In the fetid basement of his country villa, a vast copper cauldron was kept at the boil; there he melted down human and animal corpses to get fresh skeletons for his grisly pathological museum of pickled fetuses, stuffed one-eyed pigs and cock-plumed hens. There may have been, as his contemporaries thought, more madness than method in his research, but dour John Hunter...
Such a quarry stirs the huchen zealot to Ahab-like fanaticism. In summer he tramps miles through rough mountain terrain, sits for hours on the edge of deep mountain pools watching for the sudden, furious boil that marks the home of a lurking huchen. Come fall, he fashions a huchen Topf-a hook hidden in a clump of colored leather strings that his fish may mistake for a small school of river lampreys. By winter, he is so eager to have at his prey that he willingly pays $5 each day for a license, stalks off to battle with...
...Trieste stayed on the bottom for 30 minutes, but Piccard and Walsh could use its powerful lights for only short periods because the heat they generate made the water around them boil violently. In later dives the Trieste will carry more instruments, take more pictures, and collect water and living creatures from the depths. Says Dr. Rechnitzer: "We'll go up and down like...