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Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...
Leader Ken Wherry called up the anti-poll tax bill. From his seat under the Senate's big gilt clock, Mississippi's quiet John Stennis picked up the cue...
...partisan hotfoot and turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
Universal Atlas is a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, so some steelmen thought that the parent might soon give the cue to abandon basing points in steel and many another industry. But short of more specific orders from FTC, the decision would come hard. To many industrialists it seemed that dropping the basing-points system-and using the alternative of discounts to meet competition-could cause as much trouble as holding on to them. The dilemma had been neatly, if inadvertently, pointed up by the Supreme Court itself...
...delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath the glassy eyes of movie and television cameras, a fully armored St. George charged in, precariously perched on a white horse that at first stubbornly refused to face the guest of honor. The cast also included 94 white pigeons which made their entrance on cue, except for six that were found later in the dean's bathroom...