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During the fortnight after President Nixon chided Congress for its failure to act on his anticrime proposals, the Senate, at least, has been busy. First, it passed a broad measure aimed at combatting organized crime. Last week, by an 82-0 vote, it approved a 100-page omnibus bill designed to intensify the federal attack on the drug traffic...
...three winners are still actively engaged in research, Delbruck at the California Institute of Technology, Luria at M.I.T. and Hershey at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's genetic-research unit at Cold Spring Harbor. Only a fortnight ago, when the three met and compared notes, none had any idea of the honor that the next week would bring...
FOLLOWING the most hectic fortnight of his presidency, Richard Nixon paused last week to recharge. Accompanied by Mrs. Nixon, he flew cross-country to spend a month at the new summer White House-a ten-room Spanish-style villa on a 75-foot cliff overlooking the Pacific at San Clemente, Calif...
Repressive Communism may once again be ascendant in Czechoslovakia, but there is one facet of Czech life where liberalism remains strong. TIME Correspondent Horace Judson spent a fortnight in Prague studying its burgeoning theater. His report...
...guidelines or face court action. One of the warnings, aimed at Georgia, was hardly unexpected. Two others came ,as a surprise. The Administration ordered the city of Waterbury, Conn., to take immediate action to end racial imbalance in its schools or face a suit. It also gave Chicago a fortnight to end faculty segregation or face similar action (see box). Despite this flurry of activity, liberals and blacks, familiar with the slow pace of court proceedings, remain skeptical about the Administration's intentions and sincerity...