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Secrecy was absolutely essential. The U.S. did not want the Soviet Union to find out about Project Argus and monitor it. And President Eisenhower did not want the world to know, when he announced the one-year test suspension (beginning Oct. 31), that the U.S. was about to carry out secret nuclear tests in the South Atlantic...
PRIX MEDICIS. The head of this prize committee was Novelist Alain (The Voyeur) Robbe-Grillet, and the winner was one of Robbe-Grillet's disciples in the school of "New Realism" (TIME, Oct. 13), which stresses objects and description rather than people and motivation. Winner Claude Ollier's La Mise En Scéne offered "interminable descriptions that spare you nothing and then, without ever seeming to take sides, crush you under the weight of inhuman detail." A mining engineer's efforts to make sense out of the remote mountains of North Africa, to lint his murdered...
Though Titan's second stage in this shoot was only a water-ballasted dummy, the first stage's performance (300,000-lb. thrust, U.S.'s biggest) promised that the hard-base missile (TIME, Oct. 13) would be ready for defense operation next year. The bird's now-certain role: temporary plug in the missile gap between the deterrent power of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers and the oncoming solid-fuel Navy Polaris and Air Force Minuteman...
...Ugly American, bestselling plea for a better U.S. Foreign Service (TIME, Oct. 6), the authors virtually ask that Washington send abroad platoons of everyday saints, preferably with engineering degrees. The idea was eagerly echoed and extended last week by a conference that in effect urged all American Christians abroad to act as missionaries...
...made in India by an amateur moviemaker (now turned professional) named Satyajit Ray. that promises to be one of the cinema's outstanding masterpieces. The trilogy is based on one of modern India's most popular novels, Pather Panchali, by Bibhuti Bannerji. Part One, Pather Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20). told a story of village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon the weary and sorrowful journey to modern times. Aparajito...