Word: somberness
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...their quiet, back-room study of the secrets of heredity, U.S. geneticists are developing many a technique as explosive as any nuclear physicist's dream. Last week, at somber meetings in separate cities, two geneticists brought current accomplishments and prospects into the open...
...Crowds queued up last week along Manhattan's West 52nd Street in front of the ANTA Theater, which houses neither a fluffy comedy nor a roaring musical, but a somber, free-verse reworking of the Book of Job. Poet Archibald MacLeish's J.B. (TIME, Dec. 22) was booked onto Broadway with scant attention from theater-party givers and a skimpy advance sale of $46,000. On top of that it ran into the truly Jobian trial of New York's newspaper strike, which muffled the critics' unanimous raves. Yet when news about J.B. did spread...
...long and somber Cabinet meetings last week, De Gaulle and his Cabinet wrestled with these awkward realities. At last, hot on the heels of the London announcement, Antoine Pinay proclaimed France's course. Presumably buoyed up by promises of financial underwriting from West Germany, France followed Britain's lead, made the franc, too, externally convertible. At the same time the De Gaulle government devalued the franc by an unexpected 17.5%, established a new rate of 493.7 to the dollar...
...Soldier. At the somber, grey-walled Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, the Republican Guards now wear dress uniform (white gloves, red epaulets) every day, and treat visitors with a new formality. Senior government officials no longer wander in whenever they feel like an informal chat, nor do they ring up the Premier on a direct line. De Gaulle, who regards the telephone as an intolerable impediment to concentration, has had the only one in his office disconnected...
Really Faithful. Out of the swimming pools, Tammy went to New York, studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and spent two years playing in somber epics, including Mourning Becomes Electra. TV and a few other acting bits kept Tammy going until 1954, when she met and later married Canada-born Actor Christopher Plummer, now starring in Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. At the time, Tammy was working in the box office at the Westport (Conn.) Playhouse. "They fired me," she says, "because I lost them $500 giving away free passes." (The habit still afflicts her. At the Downstairs...