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Often taxed with being woefully-and willfully-obscure, Playwright lonesco in Rhinoceros is by curtain time all too obvious. To the most insistent of modern-day themes, conformity, he brings the most extravagant of illustrations: that, mass-pressured enough, people will even be rhinoceroses. What starts in a provincial French town as hysteria over a rhino running loose, ends as everybody's hysteria to become one. Logicians are as eager as businessmen, leftists as logicians; at the end just one fuddled clerk (attractively played by Eli Wallach) remains human. And even he vows not to capitulate only after ruefully...
What grist for the Protestant scandalmongers' mill! Everything that American Catholicism has stood for-separation of church and state, freedom of religion, a non-temporal clergy-is endangered by the stupid, archaic and "dog-in-the-manger" mouthings of these modern-day Savonarolas. This sort of thing is precisely what makes Protestants turn green at the gills and red in the face...
That employment meant the U-2 program at Lockheed. It meant the rigorous training of a modern-day espionage intelligence agent who had first of all to be a fine pilot, whose intricate instruments would do the actual work for him. Powers learned the tightlipped, laconic line of the secret agent. After he and his wife moved to Turkey, he convinced his parents that he was doing only weather work, that he never flew closer than 100 miles to the borders of Russia, that life in Adana was long repetitious periods of boredom between infrequent flights...
...have just finished reading your April 18 article on "Christian Missionaries from St. Paul to 1960" and looking at the beautiful eight-page color section on the work of modern-day missionaries...
Toportray the modern-day missionaries who appear in the color spread, TIME scouted some 250 missionaries at work from the frozen Arctic to the steaming Amazon jungle. Twelve photographers took part in the project, all of them professional save one : Father William Leising, an Oblate priest who pilots supplies to 26 mission posts in the Canadian northland, and who took the picture of the grotto 200 miles above the Arctic Circle...