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...reasons for this amnity are many. First, the town is centered about the university, working in and for it, and sharing much of its cultural advantages. Also since Princeton is essentially a residential town--and a dull one at that--few students penetrate beyond the merchant's domain of Nassau Street. But the biggest reason for continued good relationships is a crew of seven men called proctors...
...Worker draws a modern parallel: "Just as the cattle barons of the '70s, '80s and '90s sought to appropriate unto themselves the range of the public domain, so today, under the Eisenhower Administration, are the modern barons seeking to convert their grazing permits in national parks and other public areas to form a permanent tax-free title." But the main trouble: The film "tends to glorify individual-as opposed to collective-action...
...best-known "wonder metals, aluminum and magnesium are now commonplace, although a few decades ago they were prohibitively high priced. Aluminum and its alloys are still the basic materials of all aircraft. But magnesium, which is one-third lighter, is encroaching on aluminum's domain (Douglas's 1,238-m.p.h. Skyrocket has a magnesium-sheet fuselage). In the field of atomic power the most important metal, next to uranium, is zirconium. Reason: it is one of the few metals yet found which will not absorb atomic neutrons. But it is a frightening metal to process; in powder form...
...million square miles of land, one-fourth lies under the scepter of Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. In this great domain, nine times vaster than Rome's, live 603 million people...
...opportunity to change their minds at the last moment. That means guided missiles "vectored" toward the targets by electronic signals, and equipped with homing devices that sense the target ahead and turn the projectile toward it in a collision course at several times the speed of sound. The domain of these mechanical falcons is the high, thin air above the sweep of the Skysweeper...