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Scientists abhor anything that smacks of soothsaying, rarely let themselves get caught in a flat prediction. But into the serious studies of many eminently respectable scientists can be read some of the most fascinating long-range forecasting since Noah built the Ark. Such studies are the special province of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles,* which last week celebrated its third anniversary...
...Three hours after he arrived home in Fayetteville, Ark., scholarly James William Fulbright was whisked off to a country party, complete with hillbilly band. Democrat Fulbright, listening to Arkansas Democrats, found that they were satisfied with Congress. But they had a few reservations about Mr. Fulbright himself, about his sudden emergence as postwar planner (TIME, June 28). Said Farm Bureau Head H. S. Mobley: "Congressman Fulbright's talkin' about the peace over there. That's all very well, but what about over here, where we can't even get our milk picked up?" Farmers wanted...
Last week Princeton Graduate Lewis Jefferson Gorin Jr., founder, first & only commander of the Veterans of Future Wars, was Captain Lewis Jefferson Gorin Jr. in command of an artillery company at Camp Chaffee, Ark. From North Africa, Master Sergeant Thomas Riggs Jr., onetime vice commander of the V.F.W., wrote to his parents after Bizerte...
Salesman Sellman. In Texarkana, Ark., Messenger Billy Sellman waved his way with a telegram through a crowd blocking the entrance to a shoe store, handed the owner a message: "Please, sir, I would like to get a new pair of shoes, [signed] Billy Sellman...
...many areas U.S. soldiers, summoned from training stations, labored for sleepless days & nights to rescue those marooned by flood. Other soldiers (7,000 in the Little Rock, Ark. area alone) toted sandbags in efforts, mostly futile, to strengthen levees. The presence of Axis war prisoners in Missouri was disclosed officially for the first time when gangs of men with great white initials "P.W." stenciled on the backs of their jackets and on their trouser legs, turned up to work on a levee near St. Genevieve...