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...LOVE. A merry young widow (Harriet Andersson) lets a red-blooded travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) allay her grief. Result: a lusty, lightsome sex comedy by Swedish Director Jörn Donner...
...Ivar Asbjørn Følling 74, now retired, received $25,000. As head of biochemistry at Oslo's University Hospital, he was the first doctor to pay attention to a woman who reported that the urine of her two retarded children had a strangely pungent odor. Dr Følling took the trouble to find out why: the children's urine contained phenylpyruvic acid. As a result of his work, it is now known that because of a genetic defect, such children lack an enzyme essential to the metabolism of phenylalanine, a constituent of most protein...
...SHIP, by Björn Landström (309 pp.; Doubleday; $14.95). For most boys and a few fortunate men, among life's compelling questions are the position of the guns of Nelson's Victory, the difference between a galleon and a galeass, and the vexing matter of how oars were banked on biremes. With authoritative information or thoughtful supposition, Author Landström deals with such matters in a magnificent history of man's water conveyances, from the dugout to the nuclear submarine. The handsome sectional and perspective drawings...
Nothing much happens in these stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy...
...confined themselves to the more spectacular improvements. They have adopted automation widely in their mills, can now get a steel ingot of any desired size and quality simply by inserting an IBM card in a machine. Republic Steel is reducing iron ore directly into steel through the new "RN" process, which eliminates the blast furnace and reduces open-hearth time by almost...