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Consoling as this theory appears, it will not withstand the facts without considerable refinement. Academic study rarely improves scores on IQ tests, syllogistic logic, or any other known measure of effective thinking. Neither does the discipline of studying one field appear to help you enter a new and unrelated field. Historians are no better qualified to draw sensible conclusions about medical evidence than are equally intelligent garage mechanics, and musicians are as baffled as stenographers when confronted with the intricacies of the stock market...
...Added the Berlin newspaper BZ: "We would be at the mercy of Communist intrigue. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have shown us how it is done. Suddenly there is unrest in the 'free city.' Then there are riots. Then come the 'spontaneous demonstrations'. Red flags appear. There are fights. Someone calls the 'People's Police.' The police come-and they stay...
...else has. His complete curtain speech in London, after he had watched Quare Fellow's opening in the company of two playgoers from Scotland Yard, was a classic: "I've been under guard here. I need a drink badly. Please forgive me." Two years ago, invited to appear on a BBC-TV interview, he went on camera paralyzed to the point of petrification. When the BBC blamed the hot weather, Behan roared to questioning reporters: "I was drunk." Explained his wife of 3½ years, Painter Beatrice Salkeld: "They shut him up in a room before the broadcast...
...swizzle doll-heads are made of cashew shells, roughly carved to indicate human features. The cashew shells contain cardol, a notorious source of severe allergic reactions among tropic travelers (TIME, May 13, 1957). Even worse, the heads of the sticks are fitted with eyes that appear to be jequirity beans, are deadly poisonous. The Cincinnati testers fed one of the eyes to a rat, which promptly died. The U.S. PHS warned that if a small child eats one of the beans, serious and perhaps fatal illness may follow...
Nervi's task was the formidable one of carrying through on the structural problems, making a concrete edifice that would appear not only airy but also monumental and imposing. Placing a building on stilts (pilotis) has been modern architectural fashion ever since France's Le Corbusier introduced it back in the 1920s. But rarely has a column in concrete had such handsome treatment as Nervi evolved for the 72 paired columns that hold the seven-story Secretariat some 16 ft. in the air. Tapered from a rectangular cross section at the top to a near oval...