Word: timely
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...cross-cultural study in child-rearing practices in America and West Germany. Of course we expected that German parents would be stricter than American parents, and, sure enough, they were. But they were also more affectionate and spent more time with their children. Perhaps when we think we are being permissive, we are really just not paying attention to our kids. Parents have been told by experts like me, "Let your child be himself," and that has been taken to mean: Let him grow up by himself. But children should not grow up associating only with other children because they...
Mercury and Oil. Bruce McDuffie, a bearded chemist at the State University of New York at Binghamton, is the man who recently discovered mercury in U.S. canned tuna (TIME, Dec. 21). In Rome, he reported also finding high mercury levels in commercial swordfish. Reason: according to an American paper presented at the Rome conference, industry is now dumping 5,000 tons of mercury into the oceans each year. Because fish hold mercury in their systems for as long as 500 days, the contamination can travel over vast areas...
Married. Lee Remick, 35, Broadway and screen actress (Wait Until Dark, No Way to Treat a Lady), and William Gowans, 40, British film director; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in London...
...noted Haydn expert, H.C. Robbins Landon. So productive was their work that Landon has just come out with his own book, Beethoven: A Documentary Study (Macmillan, $25), an iconographical gold mine of letters, manuscripts and rare color engravings. Beethoven was one of the great creative agonizers of all time. The evidence lies in a marvelous new facsimile of his sketchbooks, circa 1786 to 1799, just published by the British Museum for distribution in the U.S. by Columbia University Press (two volumes...
...trial had promised to be far more orderly when it began last month. The defendants, to be sure, were self-styled revolutionaries, clenching their fists defiantly and spouting obscenities at law enforcement officials to prove their credentials. Still, many observers felt that able defense attorneys like Michael Tigar (TIME, Dec. 14) and a cautious judge like Boldt could control any courtroom antics...