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...people in the nearby Marshall Islands. When the Russians fol lowed with similar dirty tests, radiation increased all over the world. Especially frightening was the fallout of strontium 90, a deadly fission product that settles in bones and may cause cancer. The new Soviet test series will not necessarily scatter much-dreaded strontium 90, but radioactive products of some sort are sure to, result...
...This scatter-shot anthology includes some hastily-written and unincisive editorials, a copy of an address on America by Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, and two finely-wrought and dull poems reprinted from the Sewanee Review. Gabriel Marcel, whom I admire very much, has a reprinted and astoundingly short discourse on the technical and the sacred in modern civilization, a selection whose mixture of brevity and pretentiousness reminded me of the one-page Great Thinker articles Vanity Fair used to run--Gide on Art and Mass Myths in twelve one-sentence paragraphs. There is a reminiscence of Bernard Berenson...
...acting in both films is excellent, and makes up somewhat for the otherwise insufficient subtitles. Anita Bjork and Anders Hendrikson, the couple in On Payment, underplay their roles, but make effective use of subtle facial expressions. In A Doll's House Mai Zetterling is appropriately scatter-brained as the wife...
...first press conference last week, Tish Baldrige described a few plans of the new First Lady to make the big house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a home: ¶ One of the rooms will become-for the first time since 1901-a nursery. ¶ Jackie plans to scatter some of her own eighteenth century French antiques and porcelains around the White House to give the family quarters a more familiar look...
...side of the bridge crouched seven German teen-agers with only two weeks of military training. On the other side was a combat patrol of battle-hardened G.I.s supported by three Sherman tanks, artillery and planes. The result? Two U.S. tanks destroyed, a scatter of U.S. dead in the street and, finally, a crestfallen U.S. withdrawal to allow planes and artillery to soften up the remaining schoolboy defenders...