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...world-record holder (she set a new mark of 226 ft. 9 in. just last Saturday) and gold medalist at Munich, where Schmidt won a bronze. Although Fuchs, 29, has been having the usual youth-v. -age difficulties-Teammate Sabine Sebrowski recently beat her-she is at her peak for Montreal. The compactly built (5 ft. 6½ in., 155 Ibs.) blonde from the village of Egeln is determined to bring home the gold again, not for herself this time but "for the people who pay the taxes that enable me to compete." A Communist Party member since...
With McCarthyism at its peak in 1952 and 1953, it took a good deal of courage to write and stage The Crucible. The play was picketed not only by a number of right-wing groups, but also by the American Bar Association on the grounds that its portrayal of the 17th-century Puritan judges was unsympathetic. Ironically, in 1954 Miller himself was denied a passport to attend the Brussels premiere of this very play because the State Department felt he was supporting the Communist movement...
...Alaska, at least ten different parties of mountain climbers are trying to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, the tallest peak in North America, by July 4. These Bicentennial climbs will put 800 to 1,000 people near the top at one time. One of the parties plans to try to raise President Ford by radio once it has reached the crest...
This selfish British mercantilism has been remarkably effective in protecting and promoting British manufacturing. British exports to the Colonies have multiplied twelvefold since the beginning of this century, from £344 thousand to £4.2 million in the peak year of 1771, while American exports only tripled, to £1.3 million. The actual trade deficit with England was running at an annual rate of £1.6 million in the first half of this decade. And the American dependence was real enough, with Britain and its West Indian colonies taking most of colonial exports?tobacco, flour, fish, rice, indigo, in that...
...even more grievous loss is John Singleton Copley, perhaps the greatest painter this country has yet produced. Still only 38, he is just now reaching the peak of his powers. There is scarcely an eminent person in Boston who has not sat for him, and his portrait of Silversmith Paul Revere is masterly. (He has also portrayed many non-Bostonian notables like Thomas Mifflin, who was recently made a brigadier general in the Continental Army.) But it was his fortune, or misfortune, to marry the daughter of Boston's most successful dealer in tea, Richard Clarke...