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...revolutionized biology and medical research. Biologists hope that such research will produce a cure for cancer. It may postpone senility; many physiologists believe that human beings could live vigorously for 125 years if the chemistry of their bodies were understood. The greatest promise of level four culture is practically costless power. There have been guesses about how it might be used: in air-conditioning cities, freshening seawater for irrigating deserts, blasting away mountain ranges. But atomic technology is still too new to furnish any guides for guessing. When the first crude Newcomen steam engines began pumping out British coal mines...
...bones about General Foods' high profits. It had earned $70 million since the war. But General Foods had reinvested half its profits in modernization and new plants. Earnings, said Francis, were the best kind of venture capital, because there was no worry about interest payments. Without this "costless capital," Francis indicated, General Foods might not have been able to expand...
...foreign version of The Girl Said No, music from Princess Tingaling was substituted. Against U. S. screenings the D'Oyly Carte Company, whose British copyrights will not expire until 1961. can only protest. All credit for this costless coup goes to Producer Andrew L. Stone, who was immediately signed up by Paramount...
...request that his nomination be withdrawn, suggested that Secretary of State Cordell Hull was more deserving of it. Since Mr. Hull, with equal modesty, had already told the Cubans that he thought the President deserved the Prize, eight Latin American republics who were preparing to line up for a costless compliment to their big Good Neighbor were left in a quandary...
Neither has President Conant completely forgotten the internal, costless readjustments. We have had a reduction in hour examinations, attendance taking, a relaxation of requirements of distribution, suggestions of future reform of the A.B. and B.S. degrees, and of the coming of a more rounded degree for prospective teachers. Our President has proved himself a great one on very hand...