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...scientists are startlingly "self-impoverished," the narrowness of those who cling to the traditional culture is appalling. Snow finds the brainiest traditionalists unable to describe the second law of thermodynamics,* a question equivalent to asking: "Have you read Shakespeare...
Last week, with the situation thus stalemated, bustling, rotund Ichiro Kono, whose official title as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry serves to disguise the fact that he is one'of the brainiest men in the Hatoyama government, invited priests and mayor alike to Tokyo to talk the whole thing over. "With 8,000,000 tourists coming to Kyoto yearly," he pointed out, "nobody's coffers need be empty." Let the temples charge their admission, he suggested; let the city collect its tax. Then let the temples put in for heavy tax deductions against the national government...
...older, "Father Will," is hands-down the best-looking Jesuit in America and probably one of the brainiest. After some brilliant broken-field running through the Jesuit training program . . . he is back to his old stamping ground doing the thing he loves best: stirring up the 'happy vegetables' who populate the athletic teams . . . Younger brother "Rich" (by five or six years) has trained himself for his acting profession no less than Father Will . . . After walking off with every public-speaking and debating medal in the West, he returned after a tour to the South Pacific [as an artillery...
...week bachelor Joe McCarthy, 43, will make a place in his life for tail, auburn-haired Jean Kerr, 29, "the most beautiful girl" at George Washington University in 1945 and for four years a research assistant in McCarthy's office. Said the prospective bridegroom: "She's the prettiest and brainiest girl I've ever known. She got beside me when things were darkest." From Time Magazine, Sept...
...Bachelor McCarthy, 43, will make a place in his life for tall, auburn-haired Jean Kerr, 29, "the most beautiful girl" at George Washington University in 1945 and for four years a research assistant in McCarthy's office. Said the prospective bridegroom: "She's the prettiest and brainiest girl I've ever known. She got beside me when things were darkest...