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...voice soared like a chord out of the TV screen. In the end Narrator Walter Cronkite intoned: "This was the man . . . When will there be another like him?" The marrow in between was a combination of film clips, photographs and dialogue lovingly composed by Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General...
Bypassing what he called "Knotty Studies," Oxonian Aubrey turned his intelligent, squirrel-like mind towards whatever was new in chemistry, archaeology, philosophy, medicine, astrology, witchcraft and zombis. He became the friend or acquaintance of virtually all the great thinkers of his day, from Sir Christopher Wren to Sir Isaac Newton. In time he lost his estates, was reduced to living on handouts. He died hoping that some "Ingeniose and publick-spirited young Man" might one day "polish and compleat what I have delivered rough hewen." Aubrey confessed that his frank sketches contained things "that would raise a Blush...
...Past. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the M.I.T. program is the most ambitious ever undertaken to modernize high-school physical science courses. Its steering committee includes such names as Nobel Prizewinners Edward Purcell and I. I. (for Isidor Isaac) Rabi, M.I.T.'s President James Killian, Atomic Scientist Vannevar Bush and Moviemaker Frank Capra; its working staff already numbers more than 100. Under Director Jerrold Zacharias, head of M.I.T.'s nuclear science laboratory, the staff will work at least five years on the project, after that may turn its attention to high-school chemistry...
RUSSIA IN TRANSITION, by Isaac Deutscher (245 pp.; Coward-McCann; $4.50), is a sheaf of essays mostly written during the '50s further bolstering the author's accurate 1953 prediction (in Russia: What Next?) that the Soviet political tundra was due for a big thaw after Stalin's death. Indeed, Polish-born Author Deutscher consumes an inordinate amount of time and space just crowing ("As to my severe critics, I shall only ask how many of them would venture to republish now in book form the views they expressed on Soviet prospects six, seven, or only three years...
...Hill on the double, to win back doubting Democrats, came skirmishers from the A.F.L-C.I.O., the American Civil Liberties Union, the Society of Friends, B'nai B'rith and the N.A.A.C.P. Doubting Republicans received telephone calls from aides of Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Presidential Administrative Assistant I. (for Isaac) Jack Martin hurried over from the White House, stationed himself on the Republican side of the House lobby to buttonhole members...