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Present politics and politicians will fade away . . . but Dr. Benjamin Spock and his common sense on child care will continue to bring peace of mind to U.S. mothers for years to come ... I would like to nominate Dr. Spock...
...ONLY FADE AWAY, by Bruce Marshall (303 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), shows how an Episcopal Scotsman can hopscotch his engaging way through a comic novel as if he were the hero of a minor Greek tragedy. The hero is Strang Nairne Methuen. As a young lieutenant, he is full of wide-eyed piety, but a shapely dish can stir up his belief in "tart for tart's sake." As a brigadier, he wears a monocle, but is intelligent enough to look at the world with both eyes open. His nemesis takes the repulsive form of Claude Hermiston, a bully...
Work on the millimeter-wave generator was financed by the Office of Naval Research, and the Navy has hopes of using the tiny waves for short-range signaling. They fade out quickly in air, so there would be no chance that the enemy might pick them up at a distance. But Dr. Motz is more interested in the scientific uses of his waves. They oscillate so rapidly that they may be able to "see" into atoms, revealing properties that scientists can only guess...
...ancient prophecy holds that 2,500 years after Buddha's death the Way he founded will either fade away entirely or experience a renaissance. The present council will disband in May 1956, when the 2,500 years will be up, and U Nu is hoping for the upsurge. Said he recently: "The growing [Marxist] challenge to Buddhism has not effectively been met. . . The Buddhist organization we are going to have will combat these challenges not only in the intellectual field but if need be in the physical field as well...
...round as an omniscient spectator, introducing the participants and commenting wryly on the spectacle. At appropriate moments, the camera leaves the lovers and returns to the master of ceremonies. One suspects, however, that these exits have become hastier since the film's Boston debut, and that the bedroom lights fade out much sooner than director Max Ophulus intended...