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...public is intrigued and bewildered, the official Moscow press is neither. Critical consensus: "Who needs it?" Apparently the Russians are even less accustomed than Americans are to seeing pictures on their own merits. But what the spectators chiefly wanted was explanation. Jack Levine's brilliantly painted Welcome Home, depicting a banquet for a dissolute-looking general (which President Eisenhower objected to as "a lampoon"), left the crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust...
...last known successor of the house of Ali in 878, the Shiites wait for the "Hidden Imam" to make his earthly return. The Sunnis, on the other hand, refuse to accept divine inspiration by inheritance, recognize first the caliph as the "commander of the community," then turn to the "consensus," made up of the learned and the wise...
...first abnormal cells get that way? The experts cannot agree. Columbia University's Dr. Samuel Graff expresses the current consensus: all cancerous cells are the result of mutation, and mutations can be set off by many known factors-inherited defective genes, radiation by X or gamma rays, ultraviolet light, many chemicals, including some of the huge class of hydrocarbons, physical irritation of tissues, and certainly in some animal cancers by the invasion of a virus. There may be other, still unknown factors causing mutation...
...secrecy? To find out, Missouri Democrat Thomas C. Hennings Jr., chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, wrote to all living U.S. scientists who have won Nobel Prizes. Last week Senator Hennings released replies from three chemists, six physicists, eight men in medicine or physiology. Their consensus...
...over the preceding week, the tenth such weekly rise. Another big reason for confidence is that manufacturers this year took pains to study their market. Many sent their designers on nationwide tours to sound out stores and shoppers on the kind of clothes women want to buy. The consensus: the U.S. woman does not want novelties or revolutionary, untested style changes that make a heavy investment in clothes a risk. Women buy the most, said Kirby, Block's Cynthia Marks, when the clothes flatter the figure, give them confidence and a sense of fashion authority. More than ever, they...