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...Richard F. Post, of the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, reported that a "magnetic mirror" machine, playfully called Toy Top III, may soon make possible a controlled (nonexplosive) thermonuclear reaction. In the past, plasma formed by magnetic squeezing and heating of heavy hydrogen was too unstable to reach and maintain the high temperature necessary for a thermonuclear reaction. By using only two of Toy Top's three stages, said Post, plasma was confined in a "magnetic bottle" for one-thousandth of a second at a temperature of 40 million degrees centigrade. Post hopes that by using...
...revisit the Third Reich ranged far afield to fill space. Some went hunting for concentration camp survivors; the Denver Post interviewed 25-year-old Robert Kaye, who served when he was seven as Eichmann's orderly in a camp near Mannheim. Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror interviewed a bevy of teenagers in Queens, among them an 18-year-old rock-'n-roll singer who felt that death for Eichmann "might be letting him off too easy." From "J.C.," a man who spent 15 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, Gossip Columnist...
...Wardrobe (Film Polski; Kingsley International). The camera looks out to sea. Gulls at rest, hardly a ripple. Suddenly, about 50 yards offshore, something breaks water. A fish? A submarine? No, just a wardrobe closet -large, well-made, decorated with a mirror, and carried by two dripping workingmen. Matter-of-factly, they lug the closet to the beach, jog the water out of their ears, pick the closet up again and head for the nearest city...
...cruel world. A man slaps his friend on the back with one hand, steals his wallet with the other. Four young punks stone a kitten to death and, when the wardrobe men protest, beat them up and break their mirror. When the closet-horses lie down to rest, a watchman drives them away with a stick. Heads bowed, they carry their burden back to the beach and quietly disappear into...
...Nephew seems to have been conceived--quite intentionally--in realistic, conventional terms, perhaps in an effort to mirror its platitudinous theme: that people can eventually come to understand one another. Here the uncommunicative world Purdy created in Malcolm, half-seen, half-dreamt, is no longer considered the true metaphor of the human condition...