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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Admirable Crichton. Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, the husband-and-wife team from the motion picture Born Free (1966), make their American TV debut in this adaptation of Sir James Barrie's 1902 comedy about a family of English aristocrats marooned with their servants on an island...
...only luck to gather any meaningful information about the vast, xenophobic country, but a lot of patient plodding and unusual methods as well. His persistence paid off, and the result, Nagel's Encyclopedia Guide to China, was published in French last year and has just appeared in an English translation. A 1,504-page compendium of hard-to-come-by information on China, it should be a delight both for China-watchers and for general readers who want to shell out $19.95 for a vicarious trip...
...certain initial confusion: some London bus conductors refused to take them, taxi drivers grumbled at the nuisance and shoppers everywhere eyed their change suspiciously. For Americans, at least, the new system will end a rare period of relatively easy conversion: with the pound now pegged at $2.40, the old English penny for the first time equals an American penny...
...suggests, he may be a supermale, overaggressive and potentially criminal. Dr. Patricia A. Jacobs and her colleagues working at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh knew that a number of mentally defective men with a double dose of both sex chromosomes, or XXYY, had been found in Swedish and English institutions as criminals or hard-to-manage inmates.* This made the researchers wonder whether it was the extra Y that predisposed the men to aggression. They decided to check on simpler, XYY cases, previously seldom reported...
When the College building began to show signs of decay, the English students moved out. Eventually--no repairs were made--the presses also had to be removed. The Corporation finally offered 5 pounds to anyone who would pull the building down, but there were no takers...