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Because the truth nettles far more men than it ever sets free, Too Far to Walk is not likely to be received with much enthusiasm on college campuses. Certainly Mersey's pitiless commentary on cant on the campus will miff many people, and both students and faculties will yelp over his satiric swipes at militant protestniks, world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors...
...Kiernan withdraws aid, Collins would be forced to put the screws on the School Committee to comply with the law. Collins's first economy as mayor was to chop a couple of million off the school budget, and he needs every cant he can get. Furthermore, he can't risk siding with Mrs. Hicks on the racial issue if he wants to win a statewide election...
...Robert Culp) and his Oxford-educated Negro trainer (Bill Cosby). For all its stereotyped gunplay, the production has a style to which TV audiences should hope to become accustomed: lavish locations (Hong Kong in color for the first eight episodes), virtually choreographed direction, a swinging score, and a cant-and-cliché-free script, for which Culp doubled as author...
...real revolutionaries in Russia today are a brave band of economists who put profits and efficiency above Marxist cant. Led by Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12), they persuaded the Kremlin six months ago to begin sizable tests of their Western-style theories in the Soviet economy. First some 400 light-industry plants were cut loose from rigid central planning, permitted to produce whatever they thought they could profitably sell. Then heavy industry in the Lvov area was allowed to try out the new system. When factory managers and economists from 30 cities met in Moscow recently to review...
...Denver bureau, who did much of the reporting on the cover story. He is the grandson of the Dr. Beshoar who began practice in the cattle town of Trinidad in 1865, and his great-grandfather and father were surgeons as well. After finishing the cover story, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant sent a note of congratulation to Beshoar: "TIME'S annals are full of examples of reporters who went to amazing lengths to get the facts. But I can't think of any other who assigned his grandfather to help-and 50 years before the correspondent was born...