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High Adventure: Hacking his way through the adjective-matted underbrush of travelogueland last week, Lowell Thomas brought forth a fine specimen of indigenous fungus known as travelogue whimsy. While French African troops grappled with a bevy of Tuaregs in a mock brawl staged for his cameras, Thomas intoned between chuckles: "The bad guys. Versus the good guys . . . Make it look good, Achmed! My grandmother's watching on TV." All this and Timbuktu appeared in Thomas' latest color adventure, a grab bag of odds and ends on African superstitions. The oddest was a weirdly effective sequence showing...
France's square-set, hard-driving Louis Armand, 53, became president of the six-nation European Atomic Energy Community. A classic specimen of the topflight civil servants turned out by France's elite schools to carry on the nation's business while governments rise and fall, Armand is the engineer whose imaginative direction has restored French railways to a place among Europe's best. As president of a prospecting commission, he sparked the French drive to develop Sahara oil. Appointed one of the "Three Wise Men" in 1955 to look into Western Europe's energy...
...child who had just died with cerebral palsy. It gave Dr. Perlstein, pediatrician at both Cook County and Michael Reese Hospitals, one more chance to learn additional details about the grim affliction which is not directly fatal but is severely handicapping, sometimes shortens life by lowering resistance. The specimen was listed in the brain registry of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy (which Dr. Perlstein helped to found in 1949) and sent on to Pathologist Herman Josephy at Chicago State Hospital. Dr. Josephy may take as long as three months, slicing up to 200 paper-thin sections from the brain...
Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the department of History, echoed the sentiments of many of his colleagues, saying that he had "long felt that the Ph. D. needed overhauling." He maintained that the thesis should not be a "magnum opus," but rather a "specimen eruditionis," but feared that broad changes in the degree would be opposed by a "conservative attitude" on the part of present graduate students...
George Pierce Baker was a specimen of that great enigma, the Harvard giant. His English 47 play-writing class was nationally renowned for over thirty years; it attracted a classroom audience of some of the greatest names in American letters--Philip Barry, John Mason Brown, Thomas Wolfe, and Eugene O'Neill...