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...Future Astronomers Royal will spend most of their time in space observatories and not in Hurstmonceux [home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory]." Added Interplanetary Society Council Member Kenneth Gatland: "Space travel is inevitable . . . Toward the end of the century we will get manned vehicles which will orbit the moon, and right at the end ... we will get actual landings." Confessed one of Woolley's fellow astronomers at the Royal Observatory: "I'm not going to throw cold water on space travel...
...Army hospital during World War II, following a spinal injury during flight training. Flat on his back in the hospital, he took up drawing and painting; the play of light on the ceiling became one of his favorite themes. Invalided out of the Army, he gravitated into the orbit of San Francisco's abstract-expressionist movement, headed by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and David Park. Among Francis' student contemporaries: John Hultberg, 33, first prizewinner in last year's Corcoran Biennial (TIME, May 2 et seq.), and Lawrence Calcagno, 39 (TIME...
...week Soviet commissars signed a treaty of friendship with Yemen and promised to support Libya for a seat in the U.N. The Hungarians are shipping freight cars to Egypt, Poland is wooing Ceylon. East Germany is at work on Lebanon. Czechoslovakia, the most advanced industrial nation in the Soviet orbit, spearheads the trade offensive. The Czechs are providing spare parts for guns to Afghanistan, trucks to Jordan, tractors to Sudan...
...small, is entitled to recognition of its independence and equality under international law. The smallest state should have the same confidence as the largest that its sovereignty and territorial integrity will be respected. We reject the Communist philosophy that stronger states should take from weaker states lying within the orbit of their power. Stronger states should contribute to the development and welfare of less-developed states...
Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure ... has something decidedly attractive to offer in Joyce Grenfell herself. An English monologuist and comedienne, she has the air of a born lady and pretty much of the orbit. Her material is well-bred nonsense and lightly barbed social satire. Her manner is the scrupulously deadpan, just touched with the cockeyed. With impeccable timing and delivery, she impersonates an arch, gushing antique-shop owner, a cheery but firm nursery-school teacher, a rich, cult-crazed American lady...