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The project seemed to be a success for everyone involved. Myrtle Shattuck spoke for most jurors: "It is easier to concentrate on TV than if we had the people here." The attorneys found several advantages. More precise opening statements were possible, said Lawyer Thomas J. Murray Jr., because "I knew...
Billed as the first literary magazine for children since the famed St. Nicholas faded away in the '30s, Cricket (price: $1.25 per issue) mercifully does not talk down to its readers. It offers a good range of literate, mind-widening material-fairy tales, poems, tongue twisters, articles on space...
What apparently prompted Sharon to speak out was a series of stories from Tel Aviv suggesting that the hero of the Suez crossing had himself disobeyed orders and erred by pushing westward to Cairo too quickly, rather than widening the bridgehead to the north and south. Sharon became convinced that...
"He was like a stone thrown in the middle of a lake which, by the ripples it causes, has ever-widening influence," Freedberg said.
Davis acknowledges that his terrifying scenarios are based on a large quotient of guesswork. Meteorologists may not ever achieve enough mastery over hurricanes to affect the earth's heat balance. Still, the warning echoes a theme that is finding widening support among thoughtful scientists: man must learn much more...