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David Cole's "The King's Child, the King's Child, Ah!", a short play in four scenes, is a delightful piece of self-indulgence on Cole's part. Cole is a junior, whose play "How I Worked It With the Bush" displayed the same kind of wit and competence...
There are times when Cole's humor (which largely consists in ingenious shifts from classical speech to slang to officialese) becomes a little wearing. Portions of his play are difficult to follow, and some of the scenes where Midas is allowed to philosophize and act the tragic hero actually become...
The "PMR" is a wasteland of sand and water. It covers more than 50 million square miles and extends almost halfway around the earth. Its inhabitants hunt goats in fern-forested Kauai. and missile nose cones in the sleepy lagoon of Eniwetok. It is the habitat of strange "birds" with...
Where Gadgets Fall Short. The U.S. and its allies have indeed ringed Russia with sensitive gadgets-radio and radar devices, microbarographs and seismographs recording pressure and earth waves of possible nuclear blasts, high-flying planes collecting air samples that might contain nuclear debris. Far above them have soared the U.S...
Money in the Payload. Much of the credit for the fact that Lockheed has become the nation's No. 3 defense contractor (behind General Dynamics and North American Aviation) belongs to the late Bob Gross. In 1946-long before Sputnik -he swung Lockheed into the missile-and-space work...