Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ESPIONAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Carl Schell (brother of Max and Maria) and Ronald Howard (son of Leslie) star in a drama about a cynical spy reformed by a child...
...Duke Max Joseph, struck with the beauty of the Theatre de l'Odéon in Paris, had decreed that his court erect an improved replica; though Munich at the time had only 35,000 inhabitants, the theater was built to full Parisian scale, at a cost of 800,000 gold ducats-plus free building materials contributed by unenthusiastic peasants. Only five years after its opening, though, the building burned to the ground. Duke Max watched the blaze and wailed through his tears: "I won't survive this loss-my theater, my beautiful theater...
...Manhattan's old Phoenix rep company for five seasons and earlier spent four as artistic director of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, the Seattle company opened with a stern and deliberate production of Lear, followed a night later by a bizarre and romping turn with Max Frisch's The Firebugs. The standard of selection, according to Vaughan, is "classics and could-be classics." The remainder of the season will see productions of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Robert Ardrey's Shadow...
...editor of a Midwest newspaper asked me a question the other day," wrote Columinst Max 'When Lerner in the York Post. " 'When Kennedy ran in 1960,' he said, 'everyone was discussing Kennedy as a Catholic: there was a big to-do about it. Why doesn't anyone today write about Goldwater as a Jew? Is the Jewish theme more taboo in politics than the Catholic theme?' " To Lerner, who is a Jew himself, the question insisted upon an answer, and he was quick to supply...
Karlson dipped into his tiny supply of pure ecdysone and sent a five-milligram test sample to Ulrich Clever, a young biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen. Clever had been investigating the appearance of puffy swellings on microscopic, DNA-carrying chromosomes in the salivary glands of fly larvae. The puffs appear just before the larvae mature and change into pupae, and the tiny swelling seems to cause the metamorphosis. Karlson wondered how ecdysone would affect that transformation...