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...roomful of reporters and photographers burst into applause at a Manhattan hospital last week as syndicated Labor Columnist Victor Riesel entered. It was 41-year-old Riesel's first press conference since he was blinded six weeks earlier by an unknown acid thrower (TIME, April 16 et seq.). The little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Daily Mirror columnist had lost 30 Ibs. Two neat white surgical pads shielded his eyes. But Riesel was cheerfully game and bristling with determination to renew his long fight against labor racketeers, whom he charges with the acid attack...
...effect on future generations that is perhaps most frightening, because it is most unknown. One authority on radiation, who was prevented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from discussing his report at last summer's Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, said that radiation from H-bomb tests could cause "tens of thousands" of harmful mutations in the next generation of Americans. And more recently, Thomas E. Murray, member of the AEC, declared that atmospheric contamination "could be catastrophic. A sufficiently large number of such explosions would render the earth uninhabitable to man." He went...
...important new factor today is the speculator willing to take a flyer on the works of a young unknown. Tempted by such examples as Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), whose canvases in eight years have jumped in average price from $50 to more than $1,000, dealers, brokers and middlemen are buying paintings, hoping for a "beau coup" (lucky strike). Occasionally art dealers buy up an artist's whole studio full of works, salt them away until the artist's work brings a premium...
...made off with the heart of the British common man-something Khrushchev had badly wanted to take home as another trophy from his diplomatic safaris. Through most of the visit, B. & K. remained remote and formidable figures in big black cars behind a 21-motorcycle escort (a sight hitherto unknown in Britain), but they soon sensed in the public's cool reserve that they were not being officiously sealed off from the kind of hysterical triumph they had scored in India...
...report that the Theatre be built as part of a large-scale Visual Arts Center. The question now is not "will there be a Theatre?" but "when" and "what will it be like?" There is a general air of optimism surrounding the eventual erection of the Theatre that was unknown...