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Science defends itself. Like the New York Daily News's Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor, thoughtful folk often brood on science's responsibility for the ruin and slaughter of technological warfare. Blame cannot be fixed. As Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan has pointed out, "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same." Like Tartaglia, who founded the science of ballistics in the 16th Century, scientists in Britain and the U.S. may sometime feel their work on instruments of death to be "a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and man." But Tartaglia consoled himself with...
Children live in a world peopled by large, self-confident beings who seem to do what they please but will not let children do what they please. If children brood on this situation too much, or if the situation gets them down, they can develop obsessions, phobias, complexes, neuroses as black-fledged as any grownup's. In general, the symptoms are abnormal behavior-tantrums, lethargy, refusal to eat, overeating, wetting their beds "when they are old enough to know better...
...accustomed to taking its crime with almost morbid seriousness. Citizens read about it, brood about it, usually come to the moody conclusion that the U. S. is a violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...
...determined octopus over 23,000 miles of strategic routes (South American mileage of Pan Am & affiliates: 26,000 miles). Owned or controlled by huge Deutsche Lufthansa, they operate at a considerable financial loss. But their pilots fly for the Fatherland, not for pfennigs. Lufthansa and her keen-eyed brood are 1) the arteries of German propaganda taken from Wilhelmstrasse to Rio by the Italian airline Lati, 2) the training schools where Nazi pilots learn South American topography, gain practice in long-distance flying, 3) the outposts from which hemisphere defenses come in for Nazi scrutiny...
...everything from a brewery to a personal-loan company. This week he added to his current list, which includes Liberty magazine and R. B. Semler, Inc. (Kreml, "not greasy - makes the hair behave"), For-han's toothpaste, which once encouraged four out of five U. S. citizens to brood about pyorrhea. Now on the air over MBS five times a week with the news, the busy Mr. Heatter also serves as interlocutor for the CBS We, the People show...