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...Maneuver. During the years he has edited the Review, Buckley's own views have remained consistently conservative; few people are permitted to influence his thought. One who did was Whittaker Chambers, who added some warmth and humanity to Buckley's bookish conservatism. Chambers, says Buckley, "was an anti-theory man, a poet-not an exegete." A line he once wrote to Buckley is engraved on his memory: "To live is to maneuver." And despite his devotion to conservatism, Buckley has learned to maneuver. He has urged his fellow Roman Catholics to moderate their hostility toward birth control...
...Pill." Audaciously, they work out their gentlemanly battle plans, forsaking guns-it's hard-cheese for the armed robber who gets caught-recruiting specialists in such arcane subjects as railroad engineering and advanced electronics. After the loot is lifted, the film collapses into a text-bookish story of police procedure, as Scotland Yard tries to run the thieves to earth...
Died. Barney Ross, 57, prizefighter, who won three (lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight) world titles in the 1930s, and a couple of important other victories in later life; of throat cancer; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago shopkeeper, Ross was a bookish 14-year-old studying to be a Hebrew teacher when his father was murdered by two hoodlums, who subsequently went free on a technicality. Raging at the law, Barney took to the streets himself, finally became a fighter to feed his family. His boxing style was all guts-and so was his style as a U.S. Marine...
...Today, still remarkably spry for his years, Böhm jets between continents to conduct about 80 performances a year, is already booked through 1970. A high-domed, bookish-looking man, he is known among musicians as a conductor long on native talent but short on patience. He is a stickler for punctuality, keeps a collection of 15 clocks ticking in perfect unison in the bedroom of his Vienna apartment. At rehearsals, he can be a demanding despot, responding to mistakes by roaring "Wot! Wot! Wot!" But his dictatorial ways are all in service of the music. He feels...
...once stood proud, its shelves held high, a bookish inner sanctum...