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Marathon '33, written and directed by June Havoc, is liberally laced with music and dance, yet it is not a musical. It is housed in a Broadway playhouse, but it is not a play. It is more nearly a spectacle-the kind that people have in mind when they talk of "making a spectacle of oneself," funny yet frightening, poignant, pitiable and a little tawdry. It follows no plot, but simply coils, sometimes slackly, sometimes snugly, around an event: a dance marathon. But it clings to an abiding vision that life is a grueling test, rather like...
Exporting Men. Some European governments seem almost to discourage research. In Italy, until recently, private industry's R. & D. budgets were taxed as hidden profits; in Germany R. & D. spending is hampered by low depreciation allowances. Germans also complain that the havoc of World War II slowed them grievously, and that higher-paying U.S. corporations continue to siphon off German scientists. General Electric recruiters recently interviewed 170 scientists in Germany, signed up 40 of them...
Eighteen years after the end of the Second World War, a good many Germans still maintain a sense of guilt for the crimes their Nazi government committed. This summer German students, businessmen, and Hausfrauen admitted to me that the German people share in some way the responsibility for the havoc the Nazis wrought on Europe--and the Jews in particular--during the war. While admitting this guilt, many of the people whom I interviewed felt that Germany had largely atoned for its guilt by losing the war and suffering the fate of a divided homeland. Several others, with no small...
...been blown off the tightrope, has man aged to maintain what passes for neutrality: mildly hostile toward the U.S., friendly toward China (without, however, endorsing Peking's attack against India), friendlier toward Moscow-and, of course, accepting aid from all three. But domestically, the typhoon is causing havoc...
Bombing Esther. After the wide spread hurricane havoc of 1954 and 1955, the U.S. Weather Bureau began an intensive program aimed at learning how to slow a hurricane down and make it change course. Observations from air planes and balloons showed large quantities of supercooled water high above each hurricane's heat chimney - the rising column of moist, warm, low-pressure air near the storm's calm eye. Meteorologists speculated that if this water could be turned to ice, the energy released in the process might change the chimney's pressure enough to calm the raging winds...