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Mere Mockery. Under arrest was Andrei D. Sinyavsky, 40, a ranking literary critic for the "liberal" magazine Novy Mir. Though Sinyavsky is known in the West as a supporter of the late Boris Pasternak and has penned essays on Picasso and Robert Frost, his delicate style just did not seem to fit. Tertz writes with a heavy undercurrent of Jewish Weltschmerz, Sinyavsky with a gentle wit reflecting his Russian Orthodox background...
...When the frost was on the pumpkin and the ragweed menace died, the code was broken and checked against the record of patients' complaints. Those who had had ragweed extract in their shots were found to have had only about half the comparison group's episodes of sneezing, nose running, eye watering and itching. It was official at last: those millions of injections were worth the cost and discomfort...
...Perhaps you should know that the Governor and Council of the State of New Hampshire have appropriated $40,000 to purchase the Robert Frost Homestead in Derry, N.H., as a living memorial to a great American poet...
...author of the novel Fume of Poppies. He was the object of nation-wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Slumlord," a poem not listed in the Curriculum Guide. Despite the highly vocal efforts of many satisfied parents, he failed to win reinstatement...
...Mars is more moonlike than Earthlike. The pictures showed 70 clearly distinguishable craters ranging in diameter from three miles to 75 miles; a few appeared to be rimmed with frost. If the Mariner sampling is representative, Mars may have at least 10,000 craters of the size shown in the pictures, compared with fewer than 200 meteor craters that can still be seen on Earth. - The planet's pock-marked surface, judging by what is already known of the moon's face, must be ancient-perhaps 2 billion to 5 billion years old-and well preserved. Scientists infer...