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...Useful." When the parade was over, the candidate rose amidst a clapping of hands. He didn't intend to talk politics, he said. "I assume most of you folks are going to vote for me." He remarked how well people in Owosso got along. "We're all useful," he added. "We depend on each other...
...Amidst the confused maneuvers of the Berlin impasse, some 40 members of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Assembly found time one evening last week to give a small party. Held in a suite in Paris' Hotel Crillon, it was in celebration of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's 64th birthday. Mrs. Roosevelt was late...
...pretty tense and exciting, according to Hermann, to take off on rides amidst poker games and fire whistles. The firemen's polo is located in the middle of the sax section and the practices are broken once or twice nightly by the whine of the emergency whistle and the tumbling of drivers and hosemen down the hole and out to their engines...
Later, when the stars came out over Palomar, the guests too got a peek-at Saturn, which looked like a bright silver dollar amidst its moons and rings. Apparently it took imagination to make much out of it: the New York World-Telegram headlined its story THE SHOW'S A FLOP, but New York Times Science Reporter William L. Laurence wrote that he had been "dazzled by a new radiance from the light of distant stars...
...Amidst the scramble over choice of field of concentration, there stands in a situation by no means critical but nevertheless of concern to nearly half of Harvard's pre-medical students, the field of Biochemical Sciences. In spite of excellent and well-organized tutorial, Biochemical Sciences, which exists as field but not a department, on a whole is so loose and ill-defined that an increasing number of students are changing to Biology or Chemistry...