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...There are a few short articles on the never-never world of TV, a page of generally toothless criticism, a crossword puzzle beamed at the intelligence quotient of the shoot-'em-up crowd. (Sample crossword puzzler: "Car 54, Where____ You?") Of late, the magazine has erupted in a rash of impressive bylines - Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Scientist Leo Rosten, U.S. President-to-be John F. Kennedy, who exhorted televiewers to demand more honesty in TV political coverage - in a deliberate campaign to gild Guide's public image. But TV Guide's earned reputation for accurate listings remains...
...scandal broke last fall when Pre mier Josef Cyrankiewicz, Politburo Member Edward Ochab and other top functionaries suddenly got a rash of Rabelaisian letters that mingled demands for greater intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club...
...damage the lungs so that pneumonia develops. In an already weakened patient, this may prove incurable. In plotting flu's ravages, PHS tallies all "excess deaths" (above normal for the city and season) in 108 U.S. cities, and checks to see whether the peaks coincide with a rash of "influenza-pneumonia" entries on death certificates. So far, throughout the U.S.. there have been few reports of such "excess deaths...
Kennedy and Macmillan reviewed the current rash of trouble spots-Goa, the Congo, South Viet Nam. Netherlands New Guinea-but they soon settled down to the continuing, fundamental problem of how to meet the Russian threat against Berlin. Both Kennedy and Macmillan admitted that they were perplexed by the motive behind Khrushchev's recent line on West Berlin. The Russian Premier could be toughening his stand either because he does not want negotiations or because he wants to go into negotiations with a hard position to use as bargaining leverage...
...lack of precision, a lack simply of detail, reduces much of Dr. Plantagenet to situation comedy in a wild setting. Its fascination is undeniable, but it derives far more from one's desire to learn more about a weirdly built cosmos than from any inherent appeal in a rash of conventionally unconventional ideas...