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...margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause was still hopeless. Pattie had proved conclusively that she was the faster boat and deserved the right to represent Australia against the U.S. next September. Packer, typically enough, did not concur. He asked for a fortnight's layoff to modify Gretel again and a whole new series of elimination trials...
...those days, too, he frequently sat as TIME's managing editor for two or three weeks at a stretch. One M.E. described these visitations as "like a strong wind that blew fresh air through the office but also scattered the papers into hopeless confusion. There were usually two noticeable results . . . The staff got less sleep but their morale went up, and the finished issue, though it might be uneven, had some unusual high spots...
...given by mouth or injection to get them into the bloodstream for the treatment of deep-seated tumors. But while they kill cancer cells, they also damage many normal cells; the patient may suffer such severe side effects that their use is generally restricted to far-advanced, near-hopeless cases...
...requires considerable daring and talent for a writer to render the nuances and idiom of Harlem life. Shane Stevens, 28, deserves praise for his achievement, especially because he is a white man. His Harlem mood, at times funny but mostly depressing and barbed with the hopeless hostilities of the ghetto people, will shock and sober white readers. As to the authenticity of character and action, hardly anyone outside Harlem can really judge...
...Guerre has no real beginning or end. At the film's conclusion, Diego is off to Spain to instigate a hopeless general strike in Madrid, unaware that the policia are closing in. His mistress boards a plane to bring him back to the safe harbor of France, fearful that she may be too late, that this time he has finally bought a one-way ticket home...