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...that, in the five years since Snow gave the Rede Lecture, no one has produced a prolonged discussion on the same theme. Probably this failure reflects both the essential vagueness of the problem, and the immense difficulties involved in any attempted solution. For what Snow is getting at, the breakdown of communication among specialists, is a situation which exists in every aspect of academic life, and forms a major problem of universities today. It certainly extends beyond the simple scientist-humanist dichotomy...
...Imam: ex-Palace Guard, now President and field marshal, Abdullah Sallal, 42. Last month Sallal flew to Cairo for talks with Nasser, but entered a hospital and was discharged for convalescence only last week. A physician who helped treat Sallal confided that he was suffering from a nervous breakdown. "President Nasser visited him once briefly. We gave him tranquilizers. We brought in Egypt's greatest comedian, Ismayen Yessin, to raise his spirits. We showed him movies. We flew in his wife from Yemen," the doctor related, but added sadly: "His sickness is really political. If we could give...
...expect "vicarious success." The Group gathers at church to handicap the groom, said to be a genius in the theater. "Not bad," says Pokey, the society girl. Lakey knows better, and Lakey, as always, is right. Kay's husband has sexual shortcomings, and little success. Kay has a breakdown, is sort of tricked by her unsatisfactory consort into Payne Whitney, New York Hospital's great psychiatric clinic...
...together a new government, outgoing Prime Minister Jan de Quay and other leading politicians were unable to devise acceptable compromises on the major issues that split the parties: bigger old-age pensions, the housing shortage, lower taxes for middle-income groups. After one party leader had suffered a nervous breakdown and the careers of two able ministers had been wrecked because they tried and failed to end the crisis, Queen Juliana called on up-and-coming Agriculture Minister "Vic" Marijnen, 46, who finally succeeded, lined up the youngest Cabinet (average age: 46) in the nation's history...
...music's finest old traditions is that young conductors must make their debuts only when calamity strikes the maestro and leaves the podium bare. Last week at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, Viennese Actress Paula Wessely had a nervous breakdown and Russian Cellist David Rostropovich had a heart attack, setting the emotional stage for the illness of Conductor Paul Sacher, scheduled to lead the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. Aging Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, promptly appeared on the scene with his protégé in his pocket. "My pupil," said Monteux, "he's great. He reminds...