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...possible. They maintain that in practice the states have owned this land, and the federal bill would take it away from them. Great development and organization of the new oil fields have already taken place under state ownership. Such a change as is proposed by the administration would disrupt the whole system and delay the development of the area until a new federal agency could be organized with an experienced personnel. The shift in ownership would also cause a tremendous number of legal disputes. This argument adds up to the statement that a removal of tideland ownership from the states...
...Shepherd." Bluntly, he called Cardinal Mindszenty's arrest and sentence "a most serious outrage which inflicts a deep wound not only on your distinguished College and on the Church, but also every upholder of the dignity and liberty of man . . . The principal object of the trial was to disrupt the Catholic Church in Hungary and precisely for the purpose set forth in Sacred Scripture: 'I shall strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed' ... Now that things have come to such a pass that this most worthy prelate has been . . . condemned like...
Would the British-Israeli clash disrupt the scheduled peace talk between Egypt and Israel? Mediator Bunche, as usual, was optimistic. So was his chief of staff, Brigadier General William E. Riley. As the two men took off from La Guardia Field this week for Rhodes, they were ready for the best and the worst. The Jews and the Egyptians, Bunche declared, would "have a hell of a time getting off the island" without reaching an agreement. "We have our fingers crossed," he added with a grin, "and we'd have our toes crossed too, if we could...
...some cases, says Stanley-Jones, the explosion is powerful enough to disrupt the star, blowing a vast halo of luminous material away from its surface. Such stars would be nonrepeating novae. A milder explosion would merely cause a slight expansion and more brightness. After it is over, perhaps the remaining fissionable material falls back toward the star's center and causes, in due course, another moderate explosion. Such stars, exploding gently at regular intervals, Stanley-Jones says, would behave like the "pulsating variables...
...start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like an earthquake, always happened to disrupt things. But as Li'l Abner said "Ah Do" and heard the awful words, ". . . man an' wife," he suddenly realized that nothing had happened...