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...days after the verdict, Niesewand, 28, remained in jail-where he had been since Feb. 20 under an order sanctioned by the government's emergency powers (TIME, March 19). Until his detention, Niesewand had been a protean freelance, representing the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, U.P.I., Agence France-Presse and a number of London and South African papers. His determined digging into Rhodesian affairs consistently angered Smith's white-supremacist government. Under unaccustomed fire from the Rhodesian press, officials promised to "review" the detention order. Late last week, Niesewand was released and immediately deported-an act that turned...
Died. Pablo Picasso, 91, protean genius of 20th century...
...vagaries of the judging, the award remains by far the most coveted prize for writers, partly because it is a huge windfall ($98,100). There are always famous bridesmaids waiting for the big green bouquet. At present they include Vladimir Nabokov, the finest novelist alive; Norman Mailer, the most protean writer; and poets like W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell...
...that O'Brien's role was really rather inconsequential. McGovern was outraged -as was O'Brien. After a recent press conference, O'Brien snidely told Hart: "Your candidate looks tired, Mr. Campaign Manager. You'd better see that he gets some rest." Even the protean and brilliant Frank Mankiewicz is the subject of intramural grousing; staffers complain that he is a poor administrator and that he sometimes seems to think that he is the candidate...
...title story, The Molecule Men, is the better of the two. What if a form of life existed that could modify its own genetic message, deliberately and with the speed and flexibility, say, of Fred Hoyle's imagination? What if such a protean protein were invading Earth? This is the fear that seizes Dr. John West, Cambridge scientist, as he sees a bank robber on trial at the Old Bailey turn himself into a swarm of malevolent bees. Soon after, the bees become a pack of ravening wolves and then, successively, a series of the earth's largest...