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...Chileans were slightly more polite. In Santiago, President Jorge Ales-sandri greeted Tito with decorous formality and an evident desire to keep him out of sight. At the official reception in the ornate Palacio Cousino, Tito made only the briefest of appearances and was then hustled off to a private room before he had a chance to talk to anybody. Two of his five days in Chile were spent in complete seclusion at the seaside resort of Vina del Mar. Four of Alessandri's Cabinet ministers had al ready resigned in protest against his policies, and Chilean officials thought...
...action is on such a grand scale as to be visually intelligible from only the briefest of briefings of its plot; though the three audiences, open rehearsal and two formal performances, were aided by libretti, Professor W.W. Goodwin's translation into English prose, the Greek text on opposite page. Many of the audience were repeaters, saw all three representations, and were finally able to follow the speeches almost line by line. Your reviewer had an unfair advantage--the great good luck to have studied the text in Sidgwick's edition under the instruction of Professor Herbert Weir Smyth...
...debates that fumed among scientists once the U.S. announced its intention to detonate a hugs nuclear device on the fringes of outer space. Even a short look at the serious protests registered by eminent scientific organizations is enough to make one question the purity of Time's versions. The briefest consideration of Van Allen's incredible vacillations on the effects of the bomb and the careful revisionism carried out by governmental agencies is enough to convince one that a deception had been perpetrated. If anyone suffers from the bomb's effects in short he will do so not because...
...Turning Back." Author Tuchman ends her long account with only the briefest mention of France's "miracle of the Marne," where the French at long last halted the German armies, weakened by the loss of the departed two corps and sorely needing the reinforcements Moltke held back. Her book does not capture the roar of battle that rumbles through Gallipoli, by Alan Moorehead, or In Flanders Fields, by Leon Wolff...
Once, the briefest visit to unfriendly Antarctica was something to write a book about. Today, freed from the struggle for survival by modern techniques and equipment, teams of hardy men can study Antarctica almost as routinely as if it were Ohio. Bases are now maintained on the continent by the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, Japan, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Argentina, Chile and France-and Poland is about to join the club by taking over a Russian base. All of them get along famously and-by an unwritten rule of Antarctica-lend advice, equipment and assistance to each other whenever...