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When an oilman named Cooper (Cyril Wheeler) planes into London with a case of smallpox, and some other seemingly unrelated cases develop, it becomes Terry-Thomas feverish chore to track down the carrier. In no time, several other plot strings become chronically entangled. Cooper's bride, Michele, played by a sensuous brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team...
...only with blocks, which could be to suggest new settings a minimum of time and effort. the Loeb stage is too deep this method, Armistead feels. he had to "thearicalize" the design, introducing a patters of and backdrops, all of which to be designed, built and paint--a difficult chore though one plenty of room for innovation...
...problem is essentially one of lack of communication between grader and graded. The grader cannot help tending to regard his task as a dreary, repetitious chore, enlivened only by an occasional witty or brilliant examination, and by the opportunity to discuss the answers with his colleagues. The student can't help regarding his grader as a mysterious nonentity who lurks in the corners during lectures and whose mental processes are utterly incomprehensible except for an occasional rumor: "easy," "a bastard," etc. Most graders lack the time to comment on exams, and some courses even refuse to return them on request...
...each major course be given a chance to publish their observations of the exam. Not only would this give the student an opportunity to learn what went on in the graders' minds--and perhaps how to write better examinations--but it would stimulate the graders' interest in their chore...
Detroit's seventh newspaper strike in as many years ended last week, after 28 newspaperless days. As usual, everybody was a loser: the settlement represented a compromise that made neither side very happy, and the city's readers were faced with the unpleasant chore of catching up on events that had slipped past them during the last month. Meantime, in Minneapolis, the strike against the Star and Tribune [TIME, May 11] entered its fifth week, with the end not yet in sight...