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Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Rerun of Prescription: Hypnosis, which shows how an often-abused medical technique can be useful...
...also one of the least visited. The sere, solemn world of Leptis Magna lies 76 desert miles east of Tripoli on Libya's Barbary Coast, reachable only by primitive bus or costly taxi. There are no guards in sight, and visitors often go home with a bit of the Classical Age in their pockets-usually a marble shard. It is possible for a traveler to ramble through this forest of fluted stone and broken stone bodies for hours without meeting anything at all of the present except himself, the burning...
...suave, oft-jailed swindler who passed about 28,000 bad checks, netted $250,000 in a career of 200 impersonations, including a college professor, retired actor, Paris Peace Conference delegate, and such definitive roles as Franklin Roosevelt and Writer Philip Wylie, charmed his victims so thoroughly that the FBI often had trouble convincing them that they had been duped, was often altruistic (last winter he sent the National Cathedral in Washington a $200 chalice, paid for. to be sure, by a bad check); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
Chairman Martin pointed out that the index of industrial growth is a more significant indication of the economy's bustle than many other indicators, such as gross national product. It is a pure index of real production, does not include the inflationary rise in prices, which often makes the rise in other indexes seem greater than it actually is. Said Martin: "As the structure of the economy keeps changing, the job of combining measures of its many parts into a single index cannot be done without having to make major revisions every few years." With increasing use of electronic...
...equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...