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...most of our high school curricula recognize any other fields; much research of the highest kind can be pursued without resort to higher mathematics or computers; leaders of some religions or orders are scientists first, theologians second, harking back to distant times when nearly all scholars wore the cloth...
...Rothschilds' heritage of drive and power traces back 200 years to the Frankfurt ghetto. Merchant Meyer Amschel Rothschild, a small man with a large dream hidden behind his beard and caftan, built up such a lively trade in cloth, commodities and old coins that he was able to branch into the more promising pastime of moneychanging. As he prospered, Meyer moved to the ghetto's five-story "House with the Green Shield" (he had been born in the humbler "Red Shield House" that gave the family its name-Rot Schild) and sent his bumptious sons...
...fashioned cloth towels, seven were so saturated with germs that no count could be made. Another 63 averaged 16,527 germs per square centimeter, but even worse than the germs' quantity was their quality. Half the towels were loaded with staphylococci, which cause boils and wound infections. A third of the towels bore colon bacteria, which spread dysentery, typhus and typhoid...
Moreover, as The Economist has noted, Wilson has been busily remaking Labor's image by "exchanging the old cloth cap for a new white coat." Hoping to effect socialism through science, he has abandoned plans to nationalize older utilities in order to concentrate on new industries created by scientific technology. A scientific revival, he feels, can provide the answers to the social, economic, and industrial problems of the sixties...
...slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd he was addressing at Aberfeldy, the Prime Minister...