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Media Campaign. The friends of nuclear power-an odd assortment of business executives, labor leaders, prominent politicians from both parties, some black leaders and nine Nobel-prizewin-ning scientists-waged mostly a media campaign. They contended, correctly, that no one has ever been killed in a civilian nuclear power plant accident, and that the odds against one, given present safety standards, are very high. (One federal study estimated that, if the U.S. contained 100 nuclear plants, an accident severe enough to kill 1,000 people would happen literally once in a million years...
After the death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, Japan's Nobel-prizewin-ning novelist Yasunari Kawabata (Snow Country) said: "If it was a case of suicide, then it was better to see no notes left behind. A silent death is an endless word." When Kawabata, at 72, took his own life last month, that observation of a decade ago became his own epitaph: he left no notes...
...first casualty is dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...
...them, came back with her virginity intact. Then she convinced the other man that she loved him, provoked him into a ruinous financial scheme, deserted him. Novelist Vailland. a sometime Communist who died in May, was also a successful journalist and film scenarist (Les Liaisons Dangereuses). His prizewin-nine novel, The Law, was a compelling study of greed, lust and power politics in a small Italian town. In his present book he aims to tell the ironic, chilling story of a modern Diana who hunts a different species of bulls and bears. Author Vailland seems to think the lady...
...masthead at left this week appears a new name in an old setting. TIME, after several years of reliance on special trips by correspondents for on-the-spot reporting from Russia, now has its own Moscow bureau again. The correspondent: Edmund Stevens, 48, a highly respected. Pulitzer-prizewin-ning reporter who has spent 13 of the past 23 years in Moscow. Denver-born Ed Stevens first went to Russia after graduation from Columbia University, there met (at an economics lecture) and married blonde Nina Andreyevna. Except for time-outs to cover ten World War II battle campaigns, from Finland...
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