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...Brul: I got the platter of that debate in Chicago and played it over to some people and they sat back and said, "By God, it is the same speech." Reuther: Of course. Brother, when you're on the beam you can stay on the beam...
Before trying to cast out Catholicism's mote, Protestantism should consider the beam in its own eye. So says the Roman Catholic Our Sunday Visitor, in an unsigned article entitled "Why Protestantism Is Losing Ground...
...blind may soon have an electrical gadget to help them get around without bumping into obstacles. The basic idea, now being worked on by the Army Signal Corps, is a small box shooting out a narrow beam of light. By turning the beam from side to side, the blind man can feel his way. When the beam hits a lamppost, a fence or any such obstacle, its light reflects back to a lens and is focused on a photoelectric cell. A gentle buzz in an earphone warns him that the obstacle is near. The blind man can tell its direction...
...problem in designing the instrument was to eliminate false signals from sunshine or artificial light. So the beam was made to pulsate like the radio waves from a radar transmitter, and the photoelectric tube was made insensitive to nonpulsating light...
...intend to become lawyers could get a helpful reading list of 90 books from two Harvard law professors, Zechariah Chafee Jr. and John M. Maguire. Some of the choices, such as ex-Dean Roscoe Pound's The Spirit of the Common Law, were strictly on the legal beam. Some others...