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Dancing Taught. When Pearl Harbor came, Gould was in the U.S. The Japanese shanghaied his paper, publishing a Rising Sun house organ under the familiar masthead. To counteract its propaganda effect, Publisher Starr and Editor Gould opened up shop in New York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed...
These are the days that try men's souls; the petty, perfunctory academic hurdles loom large before one's eyes. The short-sighted will feel oppressed. A flight to contemplation of the eternal grand, indifferent order of things is needed to counteract this obsession with the ephemeral. Many have turned to find peace and perspective in the pinball machine...
...both crews' chances of beating the Big Red, but the situation is not hopeless. The main problem has been one of integrating the new combinations on short notice. Rouner and Hutchinson have each had only three days in their new positions, a situation Coach Bolles is trying to counteract with two practice sessions today and another tomorrow morning...
...cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their long day, andinos to counteract high-altitude sickness. Last year 8,200 tons of the leaf were chewed up in Peru...
...thing all meteorologists are agreed about: in spite of a widely held popular notion, man's tinkering with atomic energy has nothing to do with the funny weather. The energy released by atom bombs is vanishingly small compared to the forces of weather. "To counteract the energy maintaining a first-class hurricane," says Harry Wexler, the bureau's chief of Special Scientific Services, "you would have to explode 20 atom bombs per second...