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...impact. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder recently pointed out that neither the politicians nor the physicists who developed the first atomic bomb were fully aware of the consequences of radioactive fallout. The men who designed the automobile helped to annihilate distance as a barrier between men. Yet the car's very success is turning cities into parking lots and destroying greenery in favor of highways all over the world...
FULLER'S simplicity and directness come from his belief in the closeness, indeed inseparability, of interior and exterior experience. No bodily barrier can keep the events that assail a character from affecting his mind. Fuller's heroes live in situations involving the most extreme contradictions, the strongest contrary pulls on them. They remain forceful and decisive; Fuller doesn't represent the depth of social contradictions by detailing lengthy processes of decision, by creating vacillating characters. But contradictions take their toll on his tough guys after they decide what...
...long jump probably will be one of the Crimson's most productive events this year, with seniors Skip Hare and Bob Galliers leading the way, Hare leaped 24 ft. 3 in, outdoors last spring, and surpassed the 24-foot barrier on two other occasions. Galliers also reached the 24-foot mark in the outdoor Heptagonal meet last spring...
State ownership of the stadium would also permit its rehabilitation and expanded use by for example, high school teams and the Rev. Billy Graham. they said. There is no legal barrier to having the state take the stadium by eminent domain. they added...
Second Try. As the Johnson Administration vainly proposed last year, Nixon asked Congress to end one venerable U.S. barrier to trade that is regularly cited by foreign governments as justification for their own barriers. That is the "American selling price," which allows duties on benzenoid chemicals used in dyes and vitamins to be set not on the price of the import but on the cost of making the same chemical...