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...must remain faithful to the established principles of the scientific method and not allow theological beliefs and dogma to interfere." PEDRO CHEQUER, director of the Brazilian government's AIDS program, announcing that it would forgo $40 million in American support by refusing to comply with a condition that all recipients of U.S. AIDS funding condemn prostitution...
...settled too often for the topical, at least the topics were compelling: racial prejudice (The Chequer Board); war's massacre of the innocents (Pied Piper)] the apocalypse of nuclear global suicide (On the Beach). At times Shute was notably prescient. In Ordeal (March 1939) he conjured up the spectacle of a bomb-battered England. Long before the Comet crashes, he visualized aircraft exploding from metal fatigue (No Highway). In an age of equivocal values, Shute took an authoritative, old-fashioned moral stance. His men were manly. His women were womanly and virtuous. Sex was linked to marriage; evil, when...
...those who plot better than they write. With his 22nd novel, Veteran Nevil Shute again proves himself one of the best practitioners of Group 2. Shute's surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often still there by the last...
Richard Austen Butler, 48> able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer. This makes him the Tories' No. 3 man, and heir to Britain's growing sterling debts, tum bling gold and dollar reserves and adverse balance of trade. Born in India, son of an academic fam (two of Harrow's headmasters have been Butlers), "Rab" Butler won highest hon ors at Cambridge (double "first" in French and history), married into the multi-million-dollar Courtaulds...