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...participant, can scarcely claim neutrality. But with the help of TIME correspondents across the U.S., who reported their own assessments as well as the views of editors, news executives and fellow reporters, we have attempted a serious and dispassionate accounting of both the shortcomings and the accomplishments of our craft...
...Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, he has created what he calls an "autobiographical biography." But it is more than that. From the Emperor's resplendent portrait on the dust jacket to the small ink drawings scattered throughout, the book is both an object of careful craft and a most imaginative example of low-profile scholarship in which Spence's obviously immense efforts scarcely show...
...chamber with smoke and caused the premature release of ballast, sending the sub soaring rapidly to the surface. Even so, researchers seem unworried. Says Geologist Xavier Le Pichon, the chief French scientist: "The worst that could happen would be getting stuck under an overhanging cliff. But with three submersible craft in operation, we can come to one another...
...Negro writers ever become the mainstay of American literature," he has said, "it will be because they have learned their craft and used the intensity both emotional and political of their group experience to express a greater area of American experience than other writers of other groups...
...passers-by in Wilmington, Del., last week, the strange round, candy-striped craft might have looked like the UFO sighting of the century. As it hovered above the ground, the large sphere-as well as the four long wings sticking out of its sides-rotated slowly, like some ominous unearthly creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist...