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After she has studied at the School of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, her superiors send her to the Belgian Congo as a nurse, where she is assigned to work with a character called Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper...
...well as Catholics. The picture has a fine screenplay by Robert Anderson '39, firm direction by Fred Zinnemann, and beautiful color photography. Audrey Hepburn in the title role give a flawless performance; and more than able assistance is provided by Mildred Dunnock, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch, and others...
...Klein is Nixon's second appointee this year, in what is recognized as the building of a presidential campaign staff. The first: Robert H. Finch, chairman of Los Angeles County's Republican Central Committee and another old California friend, who went to Washington in January as Nixon's administrative assistant...
...Alamos' plasma thermocouple, the solid metals of a bimetallic thermocouple are replaced by a tiny (finch long) rod of uranium suspended inside a vacuum-sealed can that contains liquid cesium. The uranium is enriched with U-235. Around the cesium is a circulating coolant (see diagram). When the device is lowered inside a reactor, the uranium is bombarded by the neutrons generated by the reactor, causing the U-235 to fission and give off intense heat...
...almost as scantily in prestige as he is in pork chops. In fact, he is lucky if he is not stereotyped as "a bumbling, woolly-minded theorist, somewhat timid, thoroughly impractical, unfit for any other occupation." So says Harold Seymour, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor." Writes Dr. Seymour: "The title 'Doctor' commands special respect among laymen, and by failing...