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...British justice, a panoplied court assembled before the television cameras of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London. A bewigged judge sat in full regalia. Two learned advocates marshaled a whole parade of witnesses. Standing before the bench, the clerk solemnly intoned: "Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! The Loch Ness monster is now on trial." The point at issue: Does or does not the Loch Ness monster exist...
Millions of ardent fans agree with Tenor Lanza, in his admiration of 'the voice that has lifted him, almost as smoothly as it clears high C, from Philadelphia's Little Italy to a unique spot in U.S. show busi ness. For natural power and quality, though not for training or polish, it is a voice that many experts rank with those of the titans of opera. The voice sells Lanza, but Lanza, also sells the voice with curly-haired good looks and a paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once...
Killer's Face. It is an expensive busi ness. In order to trap a killer, researchers must first identify it. In one year the March of Dimes paid out close to $2,000,000 for virus research alone. This money helped to prove that polio is a disease caused by a whole family of viruses, three of which can be identified in the test tube...
Item : Iran stands between the Russians and the Middle East oil they would like to have and which Western Europe must have to live. The passivists look sadly at Iran's internal weak ness and shake their heads. That is not the only way for an American to look at Iran. Last month a TIME correspondent talked to U.S. engineers in Iran. Some spoke in glowing terms of a future in which Iran could support 50 million people and be a breadbasket for the whole Middle East. One said, "Damn, I wish I were 35 instead of 55. Then...
Last week a British naval officer, grown garrulous over a pint of bitter in a Portsmouth pub, fired a salvo into Nessie that seemed likely to sink her for good. In 1918, he explained, the navy for testing purposes had laid some 300 horned mines in Loch Ness in strings of eight. When they surfaced they rolled over once or twice, giving the impression of a living organism; then they sank. "At a distance," said he, "they make a fine monster...