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...played by Teresa Wright on this week's NBC Sunday Showcase, LIFE Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, who seven years ago showed the first signs of Parkinson's disease, relived a major battle against the mysterious, crippling affliction widely considered incurable. In the care of a brilliant New York surgeon, Dr. Irving Cooper, she underwent a rare operation last January, at 54 has returned to relatively normal life and work. The TV show dramatized the moving case history that Maggie Bourke-White wrote for LIFE last spring, with some unfortunate descents to the sort of syrupy embarrassment that inevitably...
...claim that Dr. Meyers disputed in particular was the script's suggestion that Photographer Bourke-White's surgeon had invented the special technique used in her operation. The technique should be credited, said Meyers, to Meyers. The script was slightly changed to indicate that only some Parkinson cases can be helped by surgery. (Actually, only 10% can be operated...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The Margaret Bourke-White Story, with Teresa Wright and Eli Wallach starring in the moving and dramatic story of the noted LIFE photographer's winning battle against Parkinson's disease...
...prefab it has occupied since 1952, NATO now inhabits a six-story, A-shaped (for "Atlantic") building containing $10 million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first sessions in NATO's new headquarters involved a skittish probing of the basic military and political assumptions on which NATO rests...
...Critic. While the subject matter may seem ponderous, the treatment is not. Beginning in 1938 with Editor Crowther, a brilliant writer with a gift for aphorism ("the soft underbelly of Europe" was his phrase, not Churchill's), the Economist has produced some of the best writing in journalism. Parkinson's Law (that administrative staffs grow an inexorable 5% a year) was first drafted in the Economist. A friend to the U.S., the Economist can still issue sharp criticisms of U.S. policy: "The Eisenhower Administration, while having a policy towards the world, has consistently lacked policies for particular parts...