Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many recent writers have described and documented the technically perfected destruction that must come with a future war--the fast destruction from a flaring rocket or a low-slung tank, the lingering poison of a radioactive cloud. Professor Albert J. Guerard has undercut these catalogues of killing in "Night Journey," '5 future war by writing about the men who must fight it. He has written a frighteningly plausible story of those men and their...
...people in one small area and is exactly the more effective for that narrowing. The future world of "Night Journey" is a terrible, muddled, complicated thing. It is a logical nightmare in which a woman can watch leaflets proclaiming a free election and freedom drop from a stagnant yellow cloud, and fearfully shout that "they are coming with their elections and their germs." It is a future which jostles rudely against the present...
...indeed running wild. So many carloads of onions poured in and jammed railroad yards and warehouses last week that the Association of American Railroads slapped an embargo on further shipments. Reason for the glut: farmers had held their onions off the market in hopes that last autumn's cloud-high prices would reach the stratosphere (TIME, Sept. 26). But when the prices started to drop, farmers hurriedly dumped their holdings. Under the avalanche, prices collapsed. From a high of $5.05 a 50-lb. sack last September, onions skidded to 44? last week, lowest price since trading began...
Howell intends to conduct the first tests in the Catskill Mountains, north of the city. Two Police Department planes will scatter the dry ice pellets on cloud formations in hopes of precipating rain...
Evidently, the Administration itself entertains doubts on the value of Harvard education, for they consistently oppose the further consequences of the joint education, which they stoutly but hollowly insist is not coeducation. The main result of this stand is to cloud the entire issue of coeducation. The administration's stand on Lamont or Harvard organizations appears reactionary, and closer integration appears as a progressive step against which "fearfuls" vainly fight. The question of whether or not Harvard should be a college for men goes unasked. Kenneth C. Keller '51 Robert J. Herbert...