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...whole, Dr. Kuiper concluded, the meteorology of waterless Venus must be rather simple. There are no ocean basins to complicate the circulation of the dusty carbon-dioxide winds. The yellow dust merely drifts along; it does not condense unpredictably and fall as capricious rain to confound meteorologists...
...subject is a dramatic one because economics has been major news throughout 1954. As we have reported week after week, the economy of the U.S. adjusted to the "recession," moved successfully from the Korean war rate of spending to armed peace, continued to thrive and confound the "gloom peddlers" and to help support the defense structure of the entire free world. Even one of the new names for the cold war now has an economic ring: the era of "competitive coexistence" with Communism...
...Shaw, whose works seem almost contemporary, were born in the same year. Shaw proved more durable: he grew old enough to reach his second childhood, while Wilde never quite outgrew his first. Yet, like Shaw, Wilde resembled a fountain of social defiance. Both men were socialists, both loved to confound and educate their audiences with startling paradoxes, both were masters of clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity, while Wilde insisted that style alone could create sincerity. It was in Shaw's nature...
...This Montesi case," said Turin's La Stampa, a journal both respected and friendly to the Christian Democrats, "is growing into the big and decisive test of Italian democracy. Either we face without fear the test of truth and confound our accusers, or we shall be submerged in the mud which is now being thrown...
...doctors will applaud your courageous and pertinent article on cigarette smoking. This should effectively confound the "unnamed specialists" . . . who report via TV and radio that there are no harmful effects to the cigarette smoker . . . Cancer is but one of many possible results under present investigation by groups throughout the country . . . While it is probably true that suburban or city dwellers are in general heavier smokers than those in rural areas, no true conclusion can be reached until a frank appraisal of the grave problem of air pollution can be made...