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...VOLTAIRE by Will & Ariel Durant. 898 pages. Simon & Schusfer...
...WILL DURANT Los Angeles
Their trail led north from Dallas to Durant, Okla., for a quickie blood test, then back across the state line to Sherman for the license, and finally to the tiny farm town of Fate, where they were married by a justice of the peace. Only because the groom is an expert drag racer was the couple, zooming over back roads at speeds up to 75 m.p.h., able to stay ahead of pursuing newsmen. At last, back home in suburban Dallas, Marina Oswald, 23, widow of John Kennedy's assassin, posed briefly with her new husband, Electronics Technician Kenneth Jess...
Silenced Pessimists. Winston Churchill's countrymen quickly turned back to present realities and future problems. Yet everywhere people paused to wonder what Churchill might teach the world he left behind. The mere fact that he happened, said Historian Will Durant, "silences the grumbling of a thousand pessimists." Said Adlai Stevenson: "Like the grandeur and power of masterpieces of art and music, Churchill's life uplifts our hearts and fills us with fresh revelation of the scale and reach of human achievement." Yet, he concluded, "our world is thus the poorer, our political dialogue diminished and the sources...
...Timely, frank, comprehensive and, as usual, well written. Here at "old Veri-tas," girls came whooping out of their rooms, waving the new TIME, happily quoting Durant and your concluding paragraph. JOAN MARTIN Radcliffe '66 Cambridge, Mass...