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...hear the Russians tell it, all the world's women were in chains before Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. As the first woman cosmonaut looped the earth, Tass exulted: "A brilliant star has flared up in the cosmic firmament. It outshines all the film stars in the world. Never and in no country did women ever attain such height." In every Russian village, women celebrated, and congratulations were fired aloft from such Soviet heroines as Lyubi Li, described in the press as "the renowned corn planter and hero of Socialist labor...
...Dream Animal. Most scientists ruthlessly exclude anything personal in their writings; Eiseley makes science an intensely personal experience. One evening, he recalls in The Firmament of Time, he was accidentally locked in a museum among grotesque skeletons of giant crabs. As the crabs began to glow in the light of sunset, he had an uneasy feeling that they had come back to life and were once again going to take over the world. When a guard showed up, Eiseley gasped in relief: "Davis, you're a vertebrate. I never appreciated it before, but I do now. I believe...
...conservative Republicans that the compromise amounted to a "surrender" to the President. In an impassioned argument (Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore called it "one of the finest speeches ever delivered in the Senate"), Dirksen declared: "With all the fever and flames of controversy upon every firmament at this good hour ... I will not charge my conscience with any act or deed which would contribute to the foundering of the United Nations, because I do not know how I would then be able to expiate that sin of commission to my grandchildren." The lopsided Senate vote improves...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, explores the relationship of God and man in a compelling, if not exalted, drama. Fredric March and Douglas Campbell brilliantly light up Chayefsky's firmament...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, explores the relationship of God and man in a compelling, if not exalted, drama. Fredric March and Douglas Campbell brilliantly light up Chayefsky's firmament...