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These two men head a Senate Sub-committee on Internal Security, currently investigating communism in the peace movement. They have demanded of Pauling the names of those scientists whom he had asked to help circulate a petition calling for an end to nuclear testing and a general agreement on disarmament. The biochemist has refused to release the names and Eastland and Dodd are now threatening to cite Pauling for contempt of Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men of Good Will | 10/1/1960 | See Source »

Regrettably, two sub-plots constantly break through the surface. One tells of the love of Khovansky's weak-willed son Andrei for Emma and his ex-fiance's enduring passion for him. Martha, his ex-betrothed, interrupts him with a persistence equalled only by that of Donna Elvira...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Khovantschina | 9/28/1960 | See Source »

...other sub-plot, which is partially justified by some noble writing for the bass-baritone, tells of Father Dossifey and his attempt to win peace and prosperity for his flock. In the end, the Czarina--at least, I think it's the Czarina--has him killed for reasons best known to herself...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Khovantschina | 9/28/1960 | See Source »

Although his father was one of the most renowned Hamlets, John Barrymore Jr., 28, has never been notably Shakespearean. But last week he made Barrymore-sized headlines after a sub-balcony performance worthy of a Greenwich Village Romeo and Juliet. At 5 a.m. he insistently rang the doorbell of his ex-fiancée, Italian Cinemactress Giorgia Moll, 21. Barrymore announced himself as the apartment porter, but Giorgia's mother, not the least bit fooled, had the cops called. When John Jr. was later haled into court on charges of housebreaking and defamation, the whole thing became clear-more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...years on high school and college students in Utah. She calls it "a process of reading rapidly down the page, allowing the eyes to trigger the mind directly and eliminating the necessity of saying, hearing or thinking the sound of words." Mrs. Wood thinks most people are "sub-vocalizers" or inward lip-readers. Just as a pilot is aware of many things at once, her students learn to steep themselves in a book's total mood and meaning. "You see more than a single detail in a picture," she explains. "You see the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Read Faster & Better | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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