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Recently published have been two full-length, full-strength books excoriating the merchants of death-warming-over: The High Cost of Dying, by California Professor Ruth Mulvey Harmer (Crowell-Collier Press; $3.95), and The American Way of Death, by British-born Author Jessica Mitford (Simon & Schuster; $4.95). Both of them tend to tear down the mortician's carefully nurtured image as a compassionate, reverent family-friend-in-need and substitute an equally distorted picture of a hypocritical racketeer in black...
...University of Southern California, he joined 20th Century-Fox and had risen to the post of Eastern publicity manager before he decided that "it was time either to write or be unhappy for the rest of my life." He batted out a short story that the fiction editor of Collier's deemed "the most horrible story she'd ever received." Silliphant passed it on to Screen Directors' Playhouse and promptly got an enthusiastic acceptance and a check for $750. That was it. "I said, 'How long has this been going...
...romantics. Churchill's romanticism was invested in the manifest glories of the English past and Sevan's in the evangelical dream of a new Jerusalem in a classless England of the future. But the boy who was born in Blenheim Palace and the boy born in a collier's cottage were well matched when history brought them face to face in the House of Commons. They were the greatest parliamentarians of the century...
Lowell: George J. Bornstein, George A. Collier, Edward W. Copeland, 3rd, John Brooks Ferebee, Michael S. Horn, David L. Horowitz, Jay H. Jasanoff, Andrew J. Nathan, Dale E. Peterson, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., George Max Salger, Michael W. Schwartz, Stephen E. Schwartz, Richard B. Stone, Paul L. Weiden...
...pins popped and the spacecraft spread its, wings into the hard sunlight. All this was reported by telemetry to JPL's 85-ft. dish antenna in South Africa and relayed to the control center at the lab. "We were flying blind during lift-off and injection," says Bill Collier, Assistant Project Manager. "But about the time the panels came open, there was a shift of facial styles from worried scowls to big fat grins." Mariner II was safely delivered, apparently thriving in its adult environment, and on its way to Venus...