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...called on the Greek army to reassess its own support of the junta in light of the fact that the ruling colonels had produced no proof of a planned Communist takeover, their rationalization for seizing power. Under Greece's stern martial law, Papandreou's blast was tantamount to treason, but the junta took no further action against him for the time being, ridiculing his statement as a play for a return to power...
Medical researchers are gradually isolating parts of the complex of diseases loosely called cancer, and almost to their own surprise, they find that they are achieving survivals of at least five and ten years for a heartening number of patients. In cancer cases, such remissions are considered tantamount to cure. Last week at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan an internation al gathering of radiologists heard that this improvement is now being accomplished for many victims of Hodgkin's disease and related cancers. The higher cure rate, they heard, can be extended not only to greater numbers...
...despite efforts by the Bank of England to prop it up. (In Montreal, quotations in 9210 Canadian dollars registered a comparable price.) Gold sales also soared in Paris, Zurich and Frankfurt. Everywhere, buyers were betting that the U.S. would be forced to raise the price of gold - a step tantamount to devaluing the dollar. Though the Treasury and White House Press Secretary George Christian reaffirmed the obviously firm U.S. intention of continuing to sell gold at $35 an oz., the rush only quickened at week's end. Bullion dealers reported that hoarders and speculators from all over the world...
...face-off with the President, McCarthy complained that Johnson's pledge-card campaign (TIME, Feb. 9) was tantamount to a denial of the right to a secret ballot and likened it to branding cattle in Texas. At week's end, Robert Kennedy's unauthorized New Hampshire committee said it would heed the New York Senator's pleas to drop its write-in campaign, and most members announced that they would transfer their backing to McCarthy. Even so, there was every indication that McCarthy's drive to check L.B.J. was still moving on perilously thin...
Billion Dollar Brain is a provocative film, inventive and intelligent. In a period marked increasingly by acceptance of lack of craft (witness the reception of Mike Nichols' mediocre The Graduate), Billion Dollar Brain stands out as a low-level case-book of cinematic efficiency. Russell's camerawork is frequently tantamount to cutting: he will start on a medium shot if Michael Caine, swing up to a sign on a building, down to people leaving the building, and back to Michael Caine--all so quickly we might have seen four separate shots. The interior-exterior point-of-view cutting...