Word: wildernesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grimness and scarcity of life in China is sometimes brightened by exploits testifying to the ingenuity and dogged work of its citizens. Canada's Dr. Wilder Penfield, one of the world's top neurosurgeons, returned last week from Red China and told of a University of Shanghai medical team that built a heart-lung machine from scratch in 18 months. When they tested it with dogs, the animals died of air bubbles in the heart. The Chinese went back to work, guided only by articles in medical journals, and three years later came up with a far better...
...musical version of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince, starring José Ferrer (Nov. 28). N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker will reseed the money cloud as 110 in the Shade, with Inga Swenson, Robert Horton and Stephen Douglass (Oct. 24). A musical version of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker is called Dolly: A Damned Exasperating Woman, starring Carol Channing...
Irma La Douce. Director Billy Wilder maintains that prostitution can be fun, and Shirley MacLaine goes along with the gag. Jack Lemmon, as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight...
...List, the White House announced the names of 31 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest peacetime U.S. civilian honor, awarded to only 24 persons since 1945. Hidden away among such names as Ralph Bunche, Pablo Casals, Felix Frankfurter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Meany and Thornton Wilder were a few less well-known, though no less deserving. Among them: Genevieve Caulfield, 73, "a one-woman Peace Corps," blind since birth, who has founded and tirelessly run a much-needed school for the blind, first in Thailand and now in Viet Nam; Robert J. Kiphuth, 72, Yale...
Hope is a bogus bwana who writes reams about his African adventures but has actually never been anywhere wilder than the Museum of Natural History. Drafted by the CIA, he is sent to the Congo to recover a moon capsule that went slightly off course. The Russians send Anita Ekberg, a bumptious intelligence agent, to waylay him. "If you are captured," Hope is instructed, "take a cyanide capsule. Death is instantaneous and clean." Hope gulps: "You mean, no side effects...