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...bombers to shoot the nightly air raids on Moscow. Her ship was torpedoed out from under her in the invasion of Africa; she was among the first correspondents to photograph Buchenwald; she was the last to interview Gandhi, hours before his assassination. Thus Margaret Bourke-White followed the classic dictum of her trade, to be "in the right place at the right time." Now 57, she has put the places and the times together with some of her fine pictures in an autobiography...
...NASA's race to get a U.S citizen onto the moon. But in political and scientific circles, an acrid debate about the value of the man-in-space program continues. The men who make up NASA's budget fear that many a Congressman agrees with the dictum of ex-President Eisenhower: "I have never believed that a spectacular dash to the moon is worth the added tax burden that it will eventually impose on our citizens...
...began earnestly to apply similar restrictions to its white opponents, jailing the radicals and intimidating the liberals. Through these measures the government enlarged the scope of apartheid: the system now clearly poisons the white community as it imprisons the non-whites. The Verwoerd regime has again validated the dictum that the rights of some cannot be destroyed without imperiling the rights...
...much as a single photograph to cling to. But he has also made his paper must reading by virtue of penetrating, if plodding, political reportage. The greatest success story has been scored by a fresh, energetic morning tabloid called Paris-Jour, which sells 185,000 copies by heeding the dictum of Owner Cino del Duca: "Don't preach down to people...
...fever. Unlike his contemporary impressionists, he wanted to show the unchanging longitude and latitude of the earth rather than the fleeting snapshot of the instant. But he left to the later cubists the task of actually depicting the geometry of "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" of his famous dictum on the elements...