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...cross-examination of those witnesses reflected traditional "Southern" attitudes rather than the normal mode of courtroom proceedings. All the Negro witnesses were addressed by their first names only, since no Negro in the South is accorded the decency of any title, even one so simple as "Mr." In addition, the tactic of the State's attorney was to establish that each one of the Negroes at the ball park had had something to drink; thus attempting to cast these persons in their traditional mold as irresponsible, happy-go-lucky, and rather stupid...
...Hall has failed to produce anything quite as tempting as Herb's tripes â la mode de Caen. Despite the steady drain of funds caused by the San Francisco operation, Hearst accountants seem wary of swinging their well-honed axes on the late chief's favorite daily. But rumors periodically crop up that the News Call Bulletin, created in 1959 by a merger between the Hearst and Scripps-Howard afternoon papers, may be scheduled for demolition. If that happens, the Examiner will probably switch to afternoon publication. Hearst executives deny the rumors, but since William Randolph Hearst...
...burst of ultraviolet radiation, and the Harvard instrument can record this radiation in two ways. First, it can concentrate on a small spot in the center of the solar disc and record, in about 27 minutes, the intensity of radiation over the whole ultraviolet spectrum. During its other "mode" of operation, the eye of the spectrometer will scan the whole disk of the sun, back and forth, bottom to top, recording at just one wavelength. Each complete scan will take about four and one-half minutes and will provide a crude ultraviolet picture of the whole sun. Both these kinds...
...nation, but automotively, at least, the international era has arrived. At the seventh annual International Automobile Show, which opened in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, it was hard to tell the European from the American entries. The Europeans are going Detroit while Detroit is going continental. And the mode for both is sportif...
With The Centaur, his seventh published volume in the last six years, John Updike has switched into a new mode: use of the classic myth set up as framework for a contemporary tale. Updike readers will find it a bit of a jolt. One is used to seeing Updike detail the perfectly ordinary life; the marriage that never should have been, or, again and again, minutiae of his boyhood in rural Pennsylvania...