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...second event occurred the following night. Lawrence G. Jones, another Cambridge resident, was walking down Linnaean Street with his date. A man quietly crept up behind them and before Jones could do anything he was forced to turn down Gray Street at gun point. On Gray Street a second man, his face covered by a white handkerchief with a thin brown border, joined the first thief. They took $15 from Jones' wallet leaving him with $10; they asked for both captives' watches, but then returned them...
When Palomilla had crept offstage, Professor Wiener pointed out that "this is a simple animal," and described some of Palomilla's more modern deseendents. Then he leaned over at the audience and said the time was gone when we could afford to make machines for the sake of making machines, that to avoid a society of "R. U. R." we would have to start worrying about the moral value of the machines, deciding whether they were good or bad. "The engineer must become more and more a poet," said Professor Wiener, and Palomilla buzzed once more, quietly, behind its curtain...
...only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank to the other. The beaver has crept away, but men have built new dams-dams which tame the once treacherous river and produce power for the farmer's lamps. Peace-long-fought-for peace-has settled over the Missouri Valley, and this time it will last...
...famine of 1950 crept inexorably across China's traditional "hunger belt," some 200,000 square miles of fertile flatland that stretches from the Yangtze River to the Great Wall. Last summer, droughts had parched the flatlands; in the fall the Yellow River went on a record rampage to destroy still more farmlands. Farther south, a secondary hunger front was in the making in the normally rich Yangtze delta, hit last summer by the worst floods in 18 years. Rare in China's history have been years when famine struck in both the Yellow River and Yangtze valleys...
Some days it was the little, everyday things that crept up and overwhelmed a man with thoughts of life's swift pace and inexorable end. Harry Truman had one day like that last week...