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...balding pastor began a 32-year teaching career at Union Theological Seminary in New York; his presence helped make that period Union's golden age. In 1930, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress on the Socialist ticket; a year later, he married one of his students, a bright, elegant Briton.* They had two children, a son and a daughter...
...held a dictionary, a thesaurus, an almanac and a world history book. As TIME'S research efforts became more sophisticated, so did the girls-and their titles. At first they were titled "secretarial assistants"-but known less formally as "checkers." Eventually, TIME'S founders, Henry Luce and Briton...
...More Milk. Of greatest interest to the average Briton is a slash in social services. There will be no more free milk to schoolchildren above age seven. Subsidies for school lunches and for milk for families on welfare will also end. Prescription charges will increase from 30? to 48?. Patients who now pay only a flat $4.20 fee for any amount of dental treatment will be charged half of actual cost. Not wanting to seem entirely heartless, the Tories proposed a family income supplements bill that provides $1,872 a year for poor families with one child. That bill could...
...them: an American (Ryan O'Neal) who concludes that Methedrine (also known as Speed) is the breakfast of champions; a retired Czech (Charles Aznavour) whose government compels him to give the West his back, just one more time; an aboriginal Australian (Athol Compton), goaded by two promoters; a Briton (Michael Crawford), protege of a former champion (Stanley Baker) who cannot forget the onliness of the long-distance runner. Among the coach's Segalese utterances: "We'll run through pain to the top of the world...
With this, the eleventh novel in his Strangers and Brothers series, C.P. Snow at 64 has finally, after 30 years and 135,000 words, pronounced finis, leaving the world of marathon-dance fiction to Fellow Briton Anthony Powell.*The last installment, Snow promised, would be a book about "death, judgment, heaven and hell." Last Things is considerably less than that. Its major shortcomings and minor but honest pleasures pretty well sum up what has been right and wrong with Strangers and Brothers from the start...