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...Also in Atlanta, far-out racists of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee moved deeper into black isolationism and drew angry denunciations from Jewish-American organizations for a shoddily printed anti-Israeli broadside featuring smudgy photographs of an alleged "massacre" of Arabs by Jews and 32 "facts" about Israel that could have been written by Gamal Abdel Nasser. The newsletter also revealed that S.N.C.C. had its own problems. Accused of seeking Arab money, S.N.C.C. confessed it was financially in extremis. Pleaded its newsletter: "Help! Help! We're sinking fast...
...surprises in the form of 20th century sculpture, ranging from Aristide Maillol's 1908 Desire to a 1967 blue, geometric Dyad by Saskatchewan's Robert Murray. And while most of the Expo sculpture executed in the 1960s would not raise an eyebrow at Venice or in a far-out Manhattan gallery, it is provoking plenty of conversation in Montreal, where many fairgoers are receiving their initiation into the nuances of contemporary art (see color pages opposite...
...time when so many novelists are merely tinkering with far-out techniques or grinding out hunks of undigested raw material, Nabokov is an artist who fastidiously constructs intricate plots and dazzling verbal mosaics. He creates books without precedent in form (Pale Fire) or treatment (Lolita). He can also be a clever ice skater, stylishly tracing or following someone else's figures-the Conradian Laughter in the Dark, for example, or the Kafkaesque Invitation to a Beheading...
...Rarely Far-Out. Ever since 1938, when Geoffrey Crowther became editor, the Economist has attracted talented journalists and first-rate minds. It has rarely taken a far-out position that it has had to retreat from later. It has, in fact, vigorously espoused moderation and often corrected the overcensorious views of other publications. To the common taunt that the Israelis caught the Egyptian air force napping, the Economist replied that it was all but impossible to have guessed the timing of the attack. "Do not let us think that we would have done all that better than the Egyptians...
...Winning a contract for the systems engineering and technical direction of the Air Force's intercontinental ballistics missile program, Ramo-Wooldridge (TIME cover, April 29, 1957) quickly became one of the U.S.'s most respected "think factories." Its eventual merger with Thompson was a natural alliance of far-out and close-in engineering...