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Wild Strawberries (Swedish). For art-movie fans, the Bergman to reckon with is not Ingrid but Ingmar, a prolific writerdirector; in this haunting movie, he explores the spiritually empty space behind the busy life of an eminent old doctor...
Wild Strawberries (Swedish). For art-movie fans, the Bergman to reckon with is not Ingrid but Ingmar, a prolific writerdirector; in this haunting movie, he explores the spiritually empty space behind the busy life of an eminent old doctor...
...your workers." That was why free elections in the capitalist world are such a "farce."Though Konrad Adenauer had been elected Chancellor again and again, Khrushchev seemed to think that he was still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged in a crude bit of humor that began, "Look at Adenauer in the nude, and you will understand Germany," and then went on from there...
...force me to reconsider." Less than 48 hours later Adenauer discovered some "new developments." What were they? The Geneva talks-which to the naked eye had not changed a bit. Wrote Adenauer to top Christian Democratic brass: "If the Geneva conference does produce some success, we will have to reckon with a long series of additional international meetings and this will demand on our behalf extreme watchfulness. If Geneva ends in stalemate, the ensuing situation will be even more difficult and dangerous. In view of these considerations, I cannot assume the responsibility of abandoning my post in such a critical...
...close is interplanetary voyaging? The great weight (2,925 lbs. of instrumented payload) of Sputnik III proved to the space-wise that the Russians had practically licked the initial problems of interplanetary flight. U.S. scientists reckon that the Soviets' Lunik, with only a little more speed, would have swooped past Mars and soared out toward the asteroids. George Paul Sutton, professor of aeronautical engineering at M.I.T., believes that present propulsion systems with a little refinement can send a space vehicle as far as Jupiter or even to Saturn, 750 million miles from the earth...