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...bent and almost broken with disappointment. His wife Zelda was slowly sinking into madness, and Turnbull does a moving and convincing reporter's job on tracing Zelda's decline from the brittlely gay young madcap who could bathe in the Plaza fountain at midnight to the hopeless schizophrenic that she became. As Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were any good." He drowned...
Secretary of State Rusk announced yesterday that a test-ban agreement with the Soviet Union now looks hopeless. At the same time, an uncomfortable Professor sits in a small office on the fourth floor of the Geological Museum, convinced that he could effect that agreement within a week if given the chance...
...juniors John Wideman and Bob Purdy, second team All-Ivy selections, and several others. Steve Spahn, league scoring champ, returns to head the Dartmouth team; Cornell boasts a good crop of young players; and Columbia has Art Woliansky. Only Brown, having lost Mike Cingiser and Greg Heath, appears hopeless...
...Brighter View. But the view from Washington is often distorted-and out where the votes are. Republican prospects seem far from hopeless. Particularly in nonpresidential election years, local personalities, issues and organization often play a more important role than national images. Moreover, the G.O.P. has been gaining since 1960. Even then, while Kennedy was winning the White House, Republicans picked up 21 House seats, two in the Senate and 290 places in state legislatures. Since then, Republicans have run strongly in elections in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Texas and Louisiana, suffering an unexpected setback only in New Jersey...
...TIME, Feb. 9), Survivor Mario Wallenda, 22, had recovered sufficiently to undergo two-and-a-half hours of surgery on his shattered spine. "His prognosis for life," announced the Highland Park (Mich.) General Hospital, "is good, but he is a paraplegic, and his chances of walking normally again are hopeless...