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...Hugh Downs was program director at Lima's WLOK, moved on to WWJ in Detroit as an announcer before going into the Army in World War II. (He collapsed after a four-week basic training course and got a medical discharge.) During an eleven-year stretch with NBC in Chicago, he got into TV, announced for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed that with 894 hours on Arlene Francis' Home show in New York. In addition to his night work on the Paar show, he runs a daytime TV game called Concentration, also has a weekend post on radio...
Best hope for unshielded space travelers : the flares may die away during the low points of the eleven-year sunspot cycles, the first of which should come in about five years...
...parliamentary democracy, Malaya is also one of the most solidly based. It has an able leader, the Moslem Premier Tengku Abdul Rahman, who was able to lift emergency restrictions in the state of Negri Sembilan last week, has now cleaned up 80% of the country as the eleven-year war against Communist guerrillas in the jungle sputters off into insignificance...
...first time in twelve years, nice but lackluster Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall, 64, is hard pressed. Beall has the support of Baltimore's powerful Sun newspapers, has a quiet person-to-person effectiveness among Maryland's Baltimore-suspicious rural voters. His Democratic opponent, Baltimore's eleven-year Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, 55, has weathered scandal and long odds to win every one of his 23 campaigns in 32 years of professional politics, has strong city strength and is hanging on the coattails of popular Democratic candidate for Governor Millard Tawes to pull up his back...
...another chapter by leading the nuclear disarmament movement which is now rocking England. Even so, the author often takes too doting an attitude. Most intelligent children are somewhat saddened, for example, when they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already adumbrated three volumes of the Principia Mathematica. Nor are his repeated references to Russell as "the greatest logician since Aristotle" as indubitable as they sound; Frege would be a more likely contender for this distinction, and Goedel perhaps an equal...