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...rubbed the bookmakers the wrong way. Fifty of the biggest bookies in England-from Joe Coral and Ladbroke's to Jack Swift and William Hill-gathered that evening at London's Victoria Club. The bookies agreed to call the betting on that particular race null and void. All money wagered on the race would be refunded...
Though nature abhors the vacuum, businessmen have learned to regard it highly. By emptying air from sealed chambers to create a void, U.S. industry keeps the $16 billion electronics industry going, adds life to jet engines and makes the vitamins in cod liver oil easy to take. Sales of the machinery used to produce vacuums for industrial uses are growing 10% to 15% a year; awareness of the vacuum's almost limitless potential is growing even faster. Last week in Toronto this potential was probed at a meeting of physicists who specialize in working with vacuums. Though their esoteric...
GRAHAM SUTHERLAND-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. There is nothing pastoral about Sutherland's nature: a praying mantis peers from a wicked void of scarlet, a skull dangles in a tapestry of leaves and blue sky, a snake sneaks up to a formal fountain, a torso flails agains: gravity. In his own words, Britain's topflight painter makes "emotional paraphrases of reality." They have never been more horrible or beautiful. Twenty-five recent oils. Through June...
Burton-Becket hardly senses this obsession; his concern is his own soul, "Where honor should be, in me there is only a void," he tells his mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die to defend canon law, made great by the great office thrust upon him, or is he merely a self-appointed martyr in search of his Cain? Given a mass of ambiguities to project, Burton projects them remarkably well. He daringly meets the competition offered by O'Toole with...
...however, that the students' chances are considerably improved since a Federal Court of Appeals ruled three weeks ago in favor of William Worthr, a journalist who visited Cuba in 1961, on a similar charge. All 50 of the students from the last trip have had their passports declared technically void, but as none of them has attempted to leave the country the State Department action has not yet been tested...