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...Laboratory for a young physicist with a known Communist background, one Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz. In 1943 the Army notified Lomanitz that he was to be drafted. Dr. Condon wrote Oppenheimer about this, as Oppenheimer put it, "in a great sense of outrage." Oppenheimer protested Lomanitz draft call (to no avail), and later tried to get Lomanitz released from the Army to return...
...captors were putting him through a long forced march to their head quarters. In the course of time Earthquake, much better at flying than walking, became so tired that he sat down on the ground, and all efforts to get him to resume the trek were of no avail. Threatened with being shot on the spot, he wearily motioned them to go ahead and shoot him - and didn't budge. It was uncertain what the attitude at head quarters would be, so a runner was dispatched for orders. When he returned, the bulky Earthquake was hoisted aloft and carried...
Such dubious means, however, are to no avail. While the IBM machine quite definitely falls prey to such goings-on, a half a dozen highly-trained ETS exam inspectors do not. These inspectors examine every answer sheet before it is placed in the marking machines. According to Louis Cozma, head of the ETS marking division, even the cleverest cheating system can be spotted in a matter of seconds...
...just showed clinical pictures. Thirteen months ago, Senora R., wife of a Havana street-cleaner, was near death from a recurrence of cancer (an operation for breast removal four years earlier had failed to eliminate all the disease sites). Hormone and X-ray treatments were of no further avail...
...this warning went to no avail and on November 26 it was announced that Baker had resigned to accept a position as director of a Yale Drama School to be set up with the gift of a million dollars from E. S. Harkness, a gift which probably had also been offered to Harvard and turned down. The reaction was immediate and indignant. The CRIMSON wrote a vituperative editorial which laid the blame for Baker's resignation squarely at the feet of the President and Overseers and their "shameful neglect" of Baker. "Their guilt must not go unnoticed," the editorial declared...