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...this talk about brains and dames in space is bunk, said Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36, back for a home-town celebration in Shawnee, Okla. "If there had been a scientist on my flight, I don't think we would have gotten him back." As for the ladies, said Gordo, "to date there have been no women-and I say absolutely zero women-who have qualified to take part in our space program...
Schweppes had gotten soft when Hooper took over, and the company refers to the new spirit that he brought as "Hoopervescence." Under his rule, profits after taxes went from $756,000 in 1953 to $4.8 million last year. But the "engaging walrus"-as the Observer once called him-will not be around much longer. At 70, Hooper next New Year's Dav will step down in favor of Harol Watkinson, 53, a former Tory Defense Minister. Watkinson's name will be a severe test for the Schweppervescence men. In any case, things are going so well...
...Kluckhohn) agrees that it demands a great deal of time and work, but none of the students objects to any of it because all find it completely fascinating. Mrs. Kluckhohn, herself often worries that she asks much of the people in her course, but she has never gotten complaints...
...Belmondo was knocked flat. During May, four prisoners detained for trifling offenses hanged themselves in their cells. There was no evidence to prove that the police were at fault, but no one could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also gotten a little tired of the overzealous use of submachine guns issued during the past Algerian terrorist outbreaks. When a panther escaped from a circus, a flic mistook a shadow for the beast and in error plugged a passerby. Another ludicrously chopped up a cow, broken loose from a slaughterhouse, with...
...Argue. Almost immobilized by gout, rheumatism and arthritis, Milhaud teaches in his home, and his own composition is inhibited only by the pain that stops his hand from writing. "I have gotten worse in the past 30 years," he says furiously. "And in this past year, the arthritis has stopped me far too much for my tastes." Still, in his 23 years at Mills he has composed 91 works, and since 1947 he has divided his time between Oakland and Paris, where he teaches composition at the Paris Conservatory...