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Briskly staged by Joseph Anthony, The Best Man gets an able production. Melvyn Douglas is firm, suave and never priggish; Frank Lovejoy is much more than a mere stage villain; and Lee Tracy, fine as the ex-President, leaves a void when he is killed off before...
...voices were fresh, but the dialogues themselves were as old as men. All, that is, except one. It came from a 94.8-lb. paddle-wheeled ball that last week rose from the surface of the earth and vaulted through space. The destiny of Pioneer V lay in the unknown void-as far as 186 million miles away-in a 527 million-mile sun-circling orbit between the earth and Venus (see SCIENCE). And of all the machinery thrown into the heavens since the space age began only 29 months ago, Pioneer V alone has a voice that will thunder through...
...disillusioned-not only about himself but about the things in which he once put his trust, such as nation and technology, in which the underdeveloped nations and the Russians are trusting today. "In the West the most sensitive, if not yet most, men are living in a great religious void; their half-gods are gone and the gods have not yet arrived." This, thinks Theologian Niebuhr, is true of men both in and out of seminaries and churches. The answer: a set of new religious symbols that are truly alive...
...Liars." Turkey's press laws were ostensibly drawn to fill a void in the national statutes, which were vague on the subject of libel. Libel laws clearly were needed in a new democracy whose newspapers were far more inclined to the savage and often baseless personal attack than they were to calm, deliberate judgments. But the laws of Menderes go well beyond mere libel control...
...reaching a flashing terminal velocity of about 450 m.p.h. As he plummeted, he took readings on his instruments, and with cool self-possession, tape-recorded his "subjective reactions and observations of this interesting experiment." On he dropped, like a stone into a void-until at an altitude of 12,000 ft., 2 min. 58 sec. and twelve miles after he had bailed out, a barometric device on his pack blew open his parachute, and he sailed slowly and safely to the ground...