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...highlighted with courtroom dramas and political-convention footage, 41% of CBS's sample could not identify either of their U.S. Senators. The National Health Test concluded with the news that 75% of Americans cannot name even three of cancer's seven danger signals,* and that two-fifths cling to the schoolboy belief that they can get venereal disease from toilet seats...
...District Court Judge Stephen S. Chandler, 65, earned a distinguished reputation as a specialist on streamlining the courts. His long experience won him a place on an American Bar Association committee set up to study the problem of removing "aged, ill or otherwise infirm" judges who, despite their disability, cling to their office. But in December, when the judges of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals met to devise a method to dispense with the services of a judge, they did not ask Chandler's advice. It was Chandler himself whom they sought to bar from exercising his judicial...
...much the weekly concern of TIME. In the current issue, for example, almost every section reports and interprets change, some of it familiar, much of it little known. The cover story in WORLD introduces the new woman Prime Minister of a vast and struggling country where many women still cling to the old tradition of purdah. SCIENCE carries a report and the first color photographs of the remarkable new underground headquarters for NORAD (North American Air Defense Command), which has been in construction for five years inside Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain...
...second part of the film, set in a German prison camp for Polish officers, is unrelated except as another microcosm of a nation brooding over defeat in a state of moral and spiritual collapse. The inmates cling to the fiction that during five long years just one heroic officer has escaped. Actually, he is a tuberculous wreck, coughing his life away in an attic hiding place overhead. The only truly noble officer so despises his fellow prisoners that he spends most of his time in the isolation of a large makeshift box, reading...
Hurt worst were the favelas, the shantytowns that house one-quarter of Rio's 4,000,000 inhabitants. Many of the favelas cling precariously to steep hills. As the rains loosened the soil, the shacks slid dizzily down. Many favela dwellers escaped; others failed to get out soon enough. Slum dwellers in the low-lying northern suburb fared little better: the entire area was flooded...