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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller has expanded his famed 1955 one-acter about a longshoreman's fatal and incestuous jealousy into a powerful drama that approximates, even though it falls short of the catharsis of Greek tragedy...
Finally, Power feels that the U.S. may be making a fatal error if it should neglect the military possibilities of outer space. He charges that Washington, which "blithely joined" in a United Nations resolution banning the use of weapons in space, virtually conceded "this promising medium to Soviet trickery." Power warns that Americans "may wake up one morning" and find a number of nuclear-armed Soviet satellites "floating in stationary orbits over every part of the United States...
Most of the books exhibited, taken straight from the shelves of Lamont, were apparently chosen to justify the library's ban on women. The Useless Sex. The Anti-Sex. The Subjection of Women, and All Women are Fatal are prominently displayed. One of the cases contains on edition of Pierre de Bourdeille's. The Lives of Gallant Ladies, suggestively opened to "Fourth Essay--On Married Women, Widows and Girls to ascertain which class of them is botter in love than the others...
...York, the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division reversed a murder conviction and ordered a new trial because a man had not been allowed to see his family before confessing to the police. Richard Taylor, 25, had no lawyer when police questioned him in the fatal shooting of a Harlem bill collector. Taylor said that police also denied his request to see his relatives. Found guilty and sentenced to life, Taylor appealed. Even if a suspect does not "rationalize his reasons for asking for his family," ruled the court, "we must assume that he makes such request to obtain...
...Institute in Essen, Germany, brought the two together. He was seeking an explanation of the fact that many women who have had surgery for cancer of the breast get along well for years on regular doses of the male hormone testosterone, while others on the same treatment soon suffer fatal recurrences of their cancer. Current theories to explain this phenomenon did not satisfy Dr. Hienz, or Dr. P. N. Ehlers of Heidelberg...