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...radiation. The necessity for clarification is especially pressing due to a report by AEC scientists that radiation in the atmosphere has doubled following the latest Russian atomic tests, and that radioactive material from the latest type of atomic weapons returns to the atmosphere much sooner than the material from previous bombs...
American Odyssey. Why has the television western far surpassed the popularity of its previous incarnations in the dime novel, the tent show, the wide screen? Why has it overtaken the space cowboys, the precinct operas and the llama dramas? Says ABC Program Director Thomas W. Moore: "The western is just the neatest and quickest type of escape entertainment, that's all." But few are willing to let it go at that. Parents and professional worriers are concerned about the violence and sadism in the horse opera. Psychoanalysts are looking for sex symbols (all those guns, of course), Oedipal patterns...
Marriage Revealed. Joe Louis, 44, heavyweight champion (1937-48), who recently formed a film company to do a TV series based on his life; and Martha Jefferson, 46, Los Angeles attorney, still a law partner of her previous husband; his fourth marriage, third wife (the first Mrs. Louis remarried him after a divorce) ; in Winterhaven, Calif., March...
...principal reason for the surprisingly small figure may have been a fear among Freshmen that almost everyone else would apply to Quincy. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, yesterday supported this explanation, labeling previous estimates of Quincy applications as "self-defeating...
...durables." What worried Washington now was that industrial prices have started to inch up sooner than usual for a recession-recovery period. Though the consumer price index has remained fairly stable since mid-1958, the Fed's Young said that industrial prices have climbed 1½% above the previous record of 1957. That was all Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver had to hear. He warned that big business and big labor alike are now being offered "their last chance to police themselves without controls...