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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared in the headlines, is pre-eminent in his party. In 1936, the abysmal failure of Republican strategy was nowhere better demonstrated than in the fact that money was overconfidently squandered trying to win in Congressional districts where the fight was hopeless, saved in districts where the fight was close. Overconfidence is not one of Joe Martin's faults. Less sanguine than the Gallup poll, he visualizes not much more than 75 new seats this year and would probably settle now for 65. The Illinois primary, though internal warfare between the State's two Democratic machines may help...
...Martin, who talks with a down-East accent, lives in an unpretentious bachelor apartment at the Hay-Adams House, would presumably become Republican Floor Leader to succeed Bert Snell who would move up to the Speakership. No one expects anything of this sort to happen this year. But how close Joe Martin can come to making it happen is, despite all the palaver of its more famed idealists, the G.O. P.'s main preoccupation for the present...
Universe? At present, Einstein does not know whether the universe is finite or infinite. The Relativistic picture of the cosmos is a four-dimensional sphere-or, more exactly, a "hypersphere," since an ordinary sphere can have only three dimensions. The hypersphere is curved, so it must close back on itself and therefore be finite-but only if the curvature is positive. It may be negative, that is, somewhat less curved than a straight line. Negative curvature, which in mathematics simply involves a minus sign, cannot of course be visualized; but if such is the shape of the hypersphere, the universe...
...exhibited rarely. Last week's show was his first in the U. S. A slight, dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait, admires André Derain above all modern artists...
...east coast of Spain, raids overland to burn a coastal vessel moving down a sheltered lagoon, on a night attack, steals another prize, lying under the guns of Port Vendres and winds up his exploits-for which he is severely censured by his admiralty-maneuvering the Sutherland close to shore and shattering infantry columns with his broadsides...