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Conventionally considered, it was a good showing. Of the 58,000 chemists who might have come, 2,321 crystallized in Washington last week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. As at most large scientific conventions, the principal concern was better jobs, but the chemists listened to papers touching on nearly every chemical compound that can be put into a test tube. They heard about hydrazine and dithiooximide and triacetyl-aldehyde-L-erythrose. The learned speakers told how to keep plastic shower curtains from smelling bad and how to keep cattle from getting arthritis...
...scene was older than Ottawa itself. By Ward Market had been a going concern since the 1840s, when the capital-to-be was known as Bytown,* a lusty lumbermen's town. Here in nine acres of open stalls, some 500 farmers sell their vegetables, chickens, suckling pigs, sides of mutton, raw wool, herbs, honey, eggs, cheese, flowers...
Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
That done, the only concern of most House members was how soon they could pack up and go home. The Senate was still involved in the leisurely Southern filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill. But on the fifth day there was a break. The G.O.P. leadership tried to invoke cloture. But when Senate President Arthur Vandenberg ruled that cloture could not be applied, no matter how many votes in its favor, the Senate recapitulated. It was a clear victory for the South...
Israelis who do not understand the danger of too much success are impatient at British and U.S. concern for Arab friendship. They shout "Oil!" as if nothing but profits were involved. The same oil, which the Arabs can shut off, is an essential part of the world's hope of recovery; without that recovery, the dream of Israel as a prosperous trading nation cannot come true. The same oil is an essential part of the defense of the West. Without that defense Israel, a democratic state, is lost...