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...disease of civilization." he said. "As countries adopt higher standards of public hygiene and sanitation, and infant mortality decreases, you get a greater number of children with no natural immunity against the disease." This probably explained recent polio flare-ups in parts of southern Europe and among upper-crust populations in South America. Soviet delegates reported that this was the explanation for their country's polio problem, acute only since 1955, and increasing in severity. Red China has been noting cases since...
...long reigned in quiet white dignity. But hidden deep beneath Demavend's base, primeval subterranean fires still rage. In a few minutes, one day last week, in a gargantuan effort to adjust to the fury deep within the earth, a vast arc of the earth's crust, curving out some 250 miles on either side of Mt. Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid waste more than 100 Iranian villages in an area covering 50,000 square miles. Communications were cut; the area's network of irrigation canals became blocked; sliding earth made roads...
...inhabitants, and it is an inconvenient object for them to study. It is too big to be observed from one or a few places. Its surface is covered with rapidly moving fluids. Its atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon it, and meteors plunge like fireflies into its atmosphere. Its magnetic field fluctuates slightly; so does...
Even water is lacking to these country poor in the bitter postwar days. The old men smoke potato leaves. Food is a crust smeared with tomato pulp or dipped in hot wine. They hang about for days at the edges of fields hoping for jobs. Their priest begs lentils from door to door. On the Feast of St. Francis, the townspeople leave a hoarded egg white and the thistly cardoon as an offering. As Novelist Rimanelli spells it out, America with its fabulous giobbe (jobs) offers the one hope of earthly release from a doom of sweat, petty theft, envy...
Today "the age that is waiting before" presses harder than ever on the crust of conservatism that has always surrounded Harvard with tradition. For several years college administrators throughout the country have been looking with alarm at the problems facing them in the next decade, when the now legendary deluge of "war babies" will flood admissions offices with applications for college entrance...