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Twelve Angry Men (Orion-Nova; United Artists). "And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine." The force of Pope's words came home to Television Playwright Reginald Rose when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels...
...retail their "4 Fishermen" products, despite their tongue-twisting and somewhat exaggerated slogan, "Frozen Fish Are Fresher Than Fresh Fish." In 1953 they were among the first to produce and market the highly popular fish sticks. Today they lease their own fishing fleet, have packing plants in Maine, Nova Scotia and California...
...addition to her current work as department chairman, Mrs. Gaposchkin is completing a book on novae, A nova is an explosive variety of variable star, which can best be described by a telegram that is a classic in astronomical circles: "Star Swells Up and Bursts...
JAMES N. WRIGHT Institute Ponte Nova Itacira, Brazil...
Business-wise, the 2,650-mile, $42 million cable between Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, and Oban. Scotland (financed and owned 50% by American Telephone & Telegraph, 41% by British Post Office, 9% by Canada's Overseas Telecommunications) was an absolute necessity. Starting in 1927, when transatlantic radiophone service began, the volume of New York-London messages alone had grown from 2,000 to 101,500 in 1955. Meanwhile, wavelength limitations not only overloaded but doomed the transatlantic radiophones to a meager 15 circuits that were at the mercy of static, sunspot interference and fading. Following bursts of sunspot activity, delays...