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This glimpse of prenatal life is an extraordinary technical feat by a West German obstetrician, Dr. Hans Frangenheim, who helped develop the pencil-thin telescopic optics, and a Washington, D.C., endoscopist, Dr. John L. Marlow, who did the actual photography in a West German hospital. TV viewers are not told that, unlike the babies of the three mothers, the embryos shown were doomed. Because of the experimental nature of the photography-and the possible risk it posed-it was done only in the wombs of women about to undergo abortions...
...most extreme expression of the nation's continued reverence for science and technology-dramatized in the tendency to call products "wonders" (as in drugs) or "miracles" (as in fabrics) or "magic" (as in electronics)-awaited the moment that a human foot first touched the moon. That feat, the President of the U.S. assured his countrymen, was to be ranked as the greatest thing since -Creation. After that exaltation, there was only one way, by the law of psychological gravity, for Sci-Tech's prestige...
While a Penn victory looked unlikely before the game even started, the feat appeared down right impossible by early in the second period. At that point, George Hughes, Charlie Peterson, and Gene Purdy had all found the net for the visitors and Harvard...
Fellini's Casanova is not a person, but the sex puppet of fantasy. He makes love as though he were doing push-ups; it is a mechanical performance, a physical feat. Only once does this figure meet a female from whom he appears to take pleasure. She is a miracle of art, a mechanical doll made of china. Casanova screws her differently, with a new harmony. They are two freaks of a kind. Casnova's lovemaking is artifice, aptly symbolized by the mechanical golden cock he carries into each bedroom, winds, and sets going to accompany his pulsations with...
That is not how the power game has turned out for Editor Felker, 51. Last week two of the biggest potentates in publishing battled for the feat of Clay. The combatants: Katharine Graham, 59, board chairman of the Washington Post Co., which in addition to the D.C. daily owns Newsweek, the Trenton Times and four TV stations; and Rupert Murdoch, 45, buccaneering Australian proprietor of ten major newspapers and eleven magazines-including, as of last week, New York City's afternoon daily the Post, where he is editor in chief. Up for grabs: control of the umbrella New York...