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Scratch Three Killers. To the U.S. Navy's submarine force, the fate of Harder, immobilized at a New London pier, seemed unhappily symbolic of a whole accumulation of woes and ills which has beset the "silent service" since the end of World War II. Harder is one of six new attack submarines equipped with novel lightweight diesel engines which the Navy's Bureau of Ships adopted over the protest of many submariners. All six ships have had engine problems comparable to Harder's, and are now being newly designed for an older-type engine. The Bureau...
Born in Hoboken, NJ. in 1894, Alfred Charles Kinsey was the son of a self-made man who had started as a shopboy at Stevens Institute of Technology, and later headed its department of mechanical arts. Little Alfred spent most of his first ten years in bed, beset by rickets, heart trouble and finally typhoid fever (which nearly killed him). Then the family moved ten miles from smoggy Hoboken to the green hills of South Orange, and Alfred's health improved. He speaks with almost ferocious intensity of what South Orange meant to him: 'Twas raised in city...
...that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble," lamented Job. But trouble fairly brims over when a man is born, as was Aubrey Menen, of an Irishwoman and a Hindu, is registered as a native Briton and educated like a true-born Englishman. Beset by so many distorting mirrors, such a man is bound to see the baffling jigsaw puzzle of his identity with either tears or laughter. Novelist Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, The Duke of Gallodoro) chooses laughter...
...there was the big "Five-Antis" campaign of last year. Since then. Peking propagandists have been adding a bewildering list of numerical sins to the jargon of Communism, alongside "commandism." "dispersionism," "tailism," and kindred diseases. Not to be outdone, the Tientsin financial and economic department confessed that it was beset by the "Four Know-Nots": not knowing what its officials were doing, not knowing the amount of capital invested in public enterprises, not knowing losses & gains, not knowing the amount of cash on hand. Last week the Peking People's Daily proclaimed a new self-criticism campaign, labeled...
...H.A.A. ticket office, long beset by the problem of how to make people pay to gain admittance to games, now finds itself beset by the opposite problem--how to get people into games free...