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...also interested by your editorial writer's abilities as a mind reader. He is apparently able to tell not only what his own conscience says about the test ban treaty, but also what Goldwater's conscience says about it, for he refers to Goldwater's "unconscionable vote on the test ban treaty." (Unconscionable: Not guided or controlled by conscience). David D. Friedman...
...time," said Editor Baggs. "We had special problems down here. We had a local boy over at the Olympics, [U.S. Sprinter] Bob Hayes, and we also had Hurricane Isbell on our hands. All you can do when it comes at you from all sides is throw it at the reader. As for Khrushchev-we just put all the rumors together to see if they spelled mother." The News approached the spelling job with utmost care. Its first headline...
...produced 26% of the nine-month ad-revenue figure: $181 million, an increase of 11.8% over last year. Both LIFE and TIME logged sizable gains. LIFE'S three-quarter advertising income was $110 million. With record ad revenues of $47 million, TIME is in third place; ahead of Reader's Digest and Saturday Evening Post, behind LIFE and Look ($52 million...
...first translation in history to combine the labors of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars. Edited by William Foxwell Albright of Johns Hopkins, a Methodist, and Presbyterian David Noel Freedman of San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Anchor Bible is intended for the scholar as well as for the general reader; each Anchor volume will include an elaborate introduction and commentary...
...with the dry, fruity tang of last year's The Light of Day (bubblingly filmed by Jules Dassin as Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much of the real action takes place offscreen, while too much of the onscreen talk comes out with a kind of freshly translated stiffness, as though the characters were speaking directly in English subtitles...