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...basic training that the staff spends its time: trips through the rope maze to teach clumsy feet how to stop fighting each other, lessons in how to wrap ankles, and running, running, running until the 85 hopefuls are too tired for anything but skull talks. Then back for more lessons: how to cut at right angles, how to pass without knocking down the receiver, and how to center between the legs...
...chief idea man, President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, with his customary leaning to hyperbole, last month promised that he would wrap up the world and deliver it in a super-spectacular package to U.S. televiewers (TIME, June 13). Last week he delivered. The package was not quite as spectacular as promised, but Wide, Wide World, seen on NBC-TV's Producer's Showcase, was nonetheless a brilliant demonstration of how far and fast TV can travel. It was easily the most rewarding show of the week...
...suave, articulate President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. likes to wrap his fancier TV ideas in even fancier clouds of philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Weaver rose before a roomful of reporters to announce a new idea. "How wonderful it would be," he wistfully began, "if everybody were rich." By the time he finished speaking, riches of a kind seemed within reach of anybody with the price of a television...
...Designer McCardell, garments must have a reason. After shivering on shipboard during a transatlantic trip in a flimsy, French-designed evening wrap she turned out a wrap in tweed. She went skiing, got cold ears, did a wool-jersey hood. After lugging a trunk and five suitcases around Europe, she decided to save space by making dresses in parts, switching the pieces around for variety-a bare top and covered-up top, for example, to be worn alternately with shorts, slacks or short or long skirts. That was one of the fashion world's first important experiments with "separates...
...took along marshmallows for toasting; and the candle-bearing novice who set fire to the veil of another novice in the procession for Compline, the last office of the convent day. "There was plenty of action," recalled the Novice Mistress with a hearty laugh. One young sister, thinking to wrap a rug around the victim, tried to pull the only rug handy out from under the flaming novice, while another snatched off the veil and stamped on it. "The fire," said the Novice Mistress, "went out, and so did the novice-without her veil...