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...Walter W. ("Red") Smith, LL.D., sports columnist. A stylist in English prose, whose sharp eye has unsettled many a phony...
...light of the spirit of the declaration, there was some surprise that the messengers elected a conservative as incoming president. He is Dr. W. A. Criswell, 60, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation. Although long regarded as a segregationist by other Baptist leaders, Criswell insisted that his 15,000-member congregation includes three Negroes. There is no disputing, however, the conservatism of his theology. Criswell is strongly opposed to the teaching of evolution in public schools, believes that Genesis provides a literally accurate account of the world's beginning...
Using the Navy's 150-ft. radio telescope at Sugar Grove, W. Va., Dr. Sadeh will attempt this month to establish the pulse rate of one or more of the pulsars to an accuracy of one part in 10 billion-the equivalent of a clock that would gain or lose only 1/300th of a second per year. Then, twice a month for the next half a year, he will match the rate of incoming pulses against a cesium clock, an atomic timer that is accurate to one part in 10 trillion...
...bargaining aim of the United Steelworkers of America, said President I. W. Abel last week, is to win "what people need in order to live." Steelworkers, like everybody else in these inflationary times, seem to need more and more. As his union, whose contract expires July 31, formally opened negotiations in Manhattan with eleven major steel producers, Abel's effort confronted the U.S. with the threat of its first nationwide steel strike since...
ENDERBY by Anthony Burgess. 412 pages. W. W. Norton...