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Howell, who left his University post last July to devote himself full time to his rainmaking business--W. E. Howell Associates --emphasizes that any large-scale rain-stopping is still on an experimental basis. It has been done successfully in the laboratory, on single cumulus clouds, and accidently while in...
In the law school, the main device for legal education is the study of cases, but "case skills," says Harno, are only a part of the knowledge a modern lawyer needs, "The lawyer is no longer primarily an advocate . . . Only a relative few of the profession now devote themselves to...
¶The typical schoolmarm fifteen years ago was her own janitor, boarded with a local family, earned $867 a year. After questioning 4,200 rural schoolteachers, the National Education Association decided that times are changing. In 1952 she was apt to have her own home, drive an automobile, make $2...
The Ideology. Stalin learned something from the purges: the power that ideas have over men's minds. Since the death of Lenin he had repeated, to the point of nausea, the old Leninist slogans. Now he began to develop the myth of Leninist-Stalinist infallibility. Every Soviet writer, poet...
In Opposition. They soon discovered the error of their judgment. Young Bob measured up to the La Follette tradition, but in his own way. He baited Cal Coolidge for not doing enough to aid the farmers. He attacked Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary Andy Mellon for cutting taxes. In...