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Carrie Nye is a touching Lady Macduff. Billy Partello, who at four is the youngest member of Actors' Equity, gives a remarkable performance as her precocious son. "I'll wager their haven't been many productions in which the title actor was bested by a fugitive from Kinder-garten...
...city sophisticates but drawing as many as 2,500,000 fans a year at hundreds of fairgrounds across the U.S. Today, thanks to such swank night tracks as Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, harness racing is thriving on cosmopolitan crowds and city slickers anxious to make a $2 wager. Last year it was an $819 million business, drawing 15 million spectators and dishing out $32 million in purses to the cream of 17,702 trotters and pacers...
...will wager your medicine editor a case of aspirin that the figures are false. We can prove that the $200-million-plus rate of annual spending for health research by our industry produces at most no more than 500 new items yearly, about a tenth of them new chemical compounds...
Having won its wager in the presence of prying television cameras and all the world's press, the U.S. could take special satisfaction in the fact that its spacemen did not keep secrets from science. They had worked in the open, unafraid of failure, unshielded by the compulsive secrecy that still surrounds much of the voyage of Yuri Gagarin's Vostok. Now, like Kilroy, Shepard had been there-and while he traveled, the world had watched...
...cannot, under any circumstances, he is suppress that freedom, temporarily." And read; "One even have to fight a in the of a quarter-truth." Rebellion neither nor accepts rebellion against anything that minishes man, rebellion not in name of what will happen but what might happen--this is wager of Albert Camus. As a journalist, as an Underground fight as a man, never less in action in words, Camus struggled to worthy of his own ideals...