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Though Government mimeographs orbited overtime on the Vanguard project, and an uncommon flow of information on firing times and other matters was directed to newsmen, the press itself played no small part in building up for the letdown. Few of the 127 U.S. and foreign reporters who covered the launching gave any strong warning to editors and readers-as briefing officers warned them-that they were there for a test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding...
Common but Uncommon. "In successive stages of development of the legal order each later stage builds upon the preceding stage. To the principle of certainty established by the strict law the stage of equity and natural law adds the upholding of morals; the maturity of law adds to both the promoting and maintaining of the demands and expectations of the individual human being; and to all this the socialization of law is adding the promoting and maintaining of the expectations common to all men in a world where we must live and move and have our being in cooperation with...
...exams. (Once he directed students to write TV scripts for the program You Are There at the Council of Nicaea and the Diet of Worms.) Last week, in reprinting Martin's most recent final, the Amherst Alumni News provided readers with a thought-provoker and argument-starter of uncommon ingenuity. As the exam question continues, the beer-guzzling Wise Guy gives this racy history of the Christian faith...
...sedate Sunday Observer: "It may arouse misgivings in those who saw, with admiration, the reigns of King George V and King George VI achieve their resplendent success by very different means. But the new style of monarchy shows the vitality and adaptability of the ancient institutions; it suits the uncommon gifts and energies of the dynamic man who is now at the Queen's side; and, most important of all, it happily meets an urgent need...
...Business, one of TV's favorite whipping boys, took another drubbing last week on Kraft TV Theater. In a playlet called Success, Actor Kent Smith limned a clean, incisive portrait of an able executive who proves, if nothing else, that the boss is not always right. With uncommon cunning, Executive Smith is squeezed out of the big corporative setup and eased into the humiliating role of a shoe salesman at I. Miller. In injured tones, his social-minded wife (played by Andy Hardy's old valentine, Ann Rutherford) reminds him: "We haven't even paid the caterer...