Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Festival manages to make it bright enough to provide an evening of unusual interest. Barry Primus plays an eccentric loner with a father fixation, who utters "Huui, Huui" in moments of distress. Two women, charmed by his innocence, try to change him, but he eludes them only to meet final disillusionment...
...Unlike your business reporter, I was cheered to learn of Norway's exit from the 18th century endeavor of whale hunting [Nov. 29]. Will the final exit of this industry be the result of responsible action by civilized nations or the extinction of these remarkable mammals? May a whale always be a whale, not margarine, dog food and then a memory...
...Palestinian professors, come a steady stream of several hundred recruits a month-more, in fact, than El Fatah can handle. It accepts Palestinians for the most part, and only those who pass rigorous medical tests and an examination by a team of psychiatrists. A recruit must also pass a final, brutal test of fortitude. He is handed a large box containing the body of a newly killed dog, still bleeding profusely. As the blood seeps out, he is told, "Inside this box is a wounded comrade. Take it and carry it around the block and bring it back here...
...Vatican has never been exactly pleased with the best-selling but controversial "Dutch Catechism" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1967). Last week a firm-and presumably final-order to change the text in the direction of orthodoxy went out from Rome...
Barrios was taken to Ames and strapped into the NASA centrifuge. He was spun for half a minute at 4 Gs. X rays showed that nothing had happened, so he was whipped around again, this time for 20 seconds at 5 Gs, with a final spurt of 6 Gs. This time the experiment seemed successful: X rays indicated that the little piece of lead was safely embedded in the brain tissue around the upper ventricle. But Barrios was still being closely watched-in case he needs another trip to the centrifuge...