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...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...
...fetus and young child. Burnet speculated that if, during the period of immunological development, the human body could be taught to tolerate grafts from selected donors, it would later be able to accept tissue transplants from those same donors. Seizing on Burnet's thesis. Dr. Medawar proceeded to confirm it in a series of laboratory tests. He inoculated mouse embryos in the womb with tissue from a different breed of mice, found that the inoculated animals later were able successfully to tolerate grafts from mice of the same breed as the original donors...
Corfu (Prospero's Cell) and Rhodes (Reflections on a Marine Venus). First published in England in 1945 and 1952, the two short books confirm Durrell's superlative gifts as a travel writer. As with Hemingway, part of his strength lies in using scenery to intensify personal states of feeling. His credo is on the first page: "Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder-the discovery of yourself...
...recalls the fact that a good storyteller will draw a face that at first seems dull, then beguile his readers with the history of its lines. Author Bates (The Darling Buds of May) draws such faces in this collection of four novellas, but then spins stories that merely confirm the first impression. It is a little hard to tell why -the prose is reeled off smoothly enough, the characters are credible and their involvements follow sound, conservative lines...
...request from President Eisenhower to create 40 additional federal judgeships. Because he thought the need urgent, Ike offered to split appointments evenly between parties. In no such hurry, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson answered that there was no time in so short a session to select and confirm new judges. "Most regrettable," rumbled Attorney General William P. Rogers. Johnson, he charged, was ignoring "thousands of Americans who are denied justice because of delay...