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...only has man begun to unlock the most fundamental life processes, but he may soon be able to manipulate and alter them?curing such killer diseases as cancer, correcting the genetic defects that account for perhaps 50% of all human ailments, lessening the ravages of old age, expanding the prowess of his mind and body. Says Caltech's Robert Sinsheimer, one of the architects of the biological revolution: "For the first time in all time, a living creature understands its origin and can undertake to design its future...
Political Spin. And excel they did-until 1965, when they dropped out of international tournaments in the wake of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Last week, in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships at Nagoya, Japan, the Chinese were back again, reconfirming their prowess as the fastest wrists in the East. In the competition with 308 players from 54 countries, their 22-member team swept four of the seven main events and won the Swaythling Cup, the table tennis counterpart of the Davis Cup. Sometimes using the traditional "handshake" grip of the West (as opposed to the "penholder" grip developed...
Lean did, however, provide compensations. He constructed his picture fastidiously: each scene attains its own symmetry, and is skillfully cantilevered with narrative thrust to the next scene. The film rarely lags. One of the more obvious examples of Lean's technical prowess is the sequence depicting Lawrence's initial desert journey and his growing friendship with his Bedouin guide. It is composed of strict horizontal pans flatly cut by two-shots or close-ups of the camel-mounted pair. When panning with them. Lean cuts both on movement and desert shapes so that not only is the motion shown...
...Brown been less sure of his own prowess, he might have seriously scarred the vulnerable young writer. But as a swinging Batman to Toback's cocky Elobin, J.B. proves to be a concerned and even therapeutic big brother. When Toback's wife, the granddaughter of an English duke, leaves him, Brown is helpful though not overly sympathetic. It didn't take much to see that Toback had been confused about which Marl-Dorough country he really wanted to come home...
...employs 185,000 people, an average 20,000 workers stay home daily, a number roughly equal to the entire work force of the huge automaker's smaller rival, Alfa Romeo. Assembly-line workers argue that they need time off now and then because the job diminishes their sexual prowess and induces a nervous tic they call the "Charlie Chaplin twitch...