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Still, the French government suffered too, since the spectacle of demonstrators and flics fighting in the rain flashed across the newspaper pages and television screens of Europe and the rest of the world. That was what many of the environmentalists had hoped for, a massive coup de théátre that would turn public opinion against the far-ranging French nuclear-energy program...
True to his word, the murderer struck again last week, creeping up behind a couple parked on a tree-shaded street near a disco-théque in the borough of Queens and firing four shots from his .44-caliber Charter Arms "Bulldog." Though Judy Placido, 17, and Salvatore Lupo, 20, his tenth and eleventh victims, were wounded, both miraculously survived. But the latest, and most publicized, attack tightened the grip of fear on neighborhoods in Queens and in The Bronx, where the bizarre, psychopathic killer has chosen his targets...
...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, recounts the history of American med schools, but he also makes some recommendations for changes in the structure of medical education. He says there is no need to separate pre-med work in college from the basic science studies of th first two years of med school. If the two phases actually were joined, however, the heavy emphasis on science that would result could hardly open the aspiring physician's eyes to the importance of integrating social and humanist considerations into the practice of medicine. Forcing pre-meds to study a range...
...clarity of registration in Calla han's pictures flows naturally from th camera's function as a precision instrument. Usually there is a sense of meditative arrest, as if the shutter really had stopped time, giving the images a most singular density. Callahan's visual world is not very busy. We are invited to scrutinize a nude body reduced to one exquisite line formed by the cleft of the buttocks and the thighs, against a white ground; and we do so with gratitude. If Ingres had been a photographer he might have arrived at images like Callahan...
...party when he was disappointed by the conservative tendencies of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. In the manner of Ronald Reagan, Roosevelt challenged a sitting President. He narrowly lost to Taft at the raucous G.O.P. Convention, which was described by Mr. Dooley as "a combination iv th' Chicago fire, St. Bartholomew's massacre, the battle iv th' Boyne, the life iv Jesse James and th' night iv th' big wind." Then T.R. formed a third party (Bull Moose) and ran in the election. By splitting the Republican vote, he enabled Democrat Woodrow Wilson...