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Cosmologists are becoming increasingly confident of their ability to fathom the secrets of the universe. Indeed there are scientists who believe that the cosmologists are too cocky. Last week in Nature, the University of London's William Hunter McCrea examined cosmology with a mathematician's skeptical eye. His conclusion: a built-in mystery to the universe will forever keep cosmologists from knowing what it is really like...
...best scene, a violent cavalry battle in a cliff-closed arroyo through which the horses charge with a fine splatter of hooves, is so thrilling that moviegoers will probably not mind its resemblance to a scene in a 1944 Joel McCrea picture, Buffalo Bill...
...most influential leaders of U.S. Protestantism is a lean, white-haired man with bushy black eyebrows and a startlingly soft voice. Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert's parish has, from his youth, been almost the whole U.S.; as much as any other man, he has been responsible for the movement toward unity among the nation's Protestant Churches. Last week, at 65, he had a new job-tending the garden of unity among the Protestant and Orthodox Churches of the world...
...Force lieutenant colonel stationed in Britain, Joel McCrea demonstrates firmly that after 25 years on the screen he can bellow convincingly such lines as, "Hey! Let's get out of here!" And away he runs across southern England, with the wife (Evelyn Keyes) under one arm, and under the other an atomic spy. The colonel figures that if he buddies up to one spy he might run down a lot of others. Well, cars full of sincere-looking extras-Scotland Yard men, who resent McCrea's interference-roar in pursuit, and platoons of snaky-looking loungers, the agents...
Lone Hand (Universal-International) suggests a number of disquieting thoughts to horse-opera fans: Is Joel McCrea, a rugged hero .who has been on the side of right in countless westerns, the varmint he seems to be in this particular oater? Is Joel in cahoots with a bunch of badmen who are holding up stagecoaches, robbing express offices and murdering sheriffs? And will Joel, as a result, lose the affections of his worshiping young son (Jimmy Hunt) and adoring wife (Barbara Hale...