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...gave most of his career to education, was president of the University of Manitoba (1934-44) and the University of Toronto (1945-57), entered politics at 60 when-soon after the first Tory election victory in 22 years-he accepted the External Affairs portfolio in 1957; of a cere-'bral hemorrhage; in Ottawa...
...nationwide television audience. And the Chief Justice and Attorney General of the U.S. made ready to travel to Philadelphia and Independence Hall. There, in liberty's shrine on the eve of Law Day, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General William Rogers would join in nationally televised cere monies with the man who conceived the idea of Law Day: Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, president of the American Bar Association, prime mover in the campaign to get the U.S. this week to reaffirm its faith in the forces of law for peace...
...last week's ground-breaking cere, mony there was some talk of peacetime research, the aspect of nuclear physics that interests scientists most. Everyone present knew some of the things that atomic science offers to humanity: new medical advances, a deeper understanding of biology, perhaps unlimited energy to do the world's heavy work. But it may be a very long time before science can get busy on such matters. Commissioner Sumner T. Pike of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission did not sound very encouraging about it. Peaceful applications of nuclear science, he said, have...
Readers recalled the old Prussian cere mony of offering a defeated fellow officer a cigaret, a revolver, one bullet...
Only with a separate air force, says he, will the men who understand global air power be able to create real - and by real he means -of air- power for the U.S. Meantime, says unmodest, sin cere Sascha de Seversky: "Those of us who have grasped the meaning of genuine air power have a clear function to per form. It is to hammer away, day and night, even at the risk of making ourselves a nuisance, at the mind and conscience of our country...