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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arlen, applies a ridiculous ending to an inane plot, and remains humorous in spite of it all. But a short piece on "Answers to the World's Most Famous Letters" falls down badly at the end. The purposely uninformed commentaries by Thomas Edwards, on quantum mechanics and chess, collapse en route, the former from overelaboration of one idea and the latter from complete abandonment of the original theme...
Four hundred star pictures are still en route here by sea, and Bok will now spend his time interpreting this and fresh data as it arrives. Exact information about the color and distribution of the stars in the southern Milky Way has been obtained with newly developed equipment, built here, and shipped to the University's most remote outpost...
...nation en masse that is disgraced by what has happened at West Point. Men just don't apply there like any other college. They are appointed, which supposedly means they have to be the cream of American youth. It is about time that every American should realize that the very materialism we have been fostering contains in its grasp the seeds for our own degeneration. Materialism, not Communism, is our deadly enemy...
...signs that Communism's World Youth Festival was not all it was meant to be. Food supplies were badly fouled up. A Red commissary officer was jailed for allowing 380 tons of meat to rot. East Germany's overburdened transport system broke down, stranded thousands of blueshirts en route to Berlin. And though East German police barred 165 East-West streets, closed 30 westbound subway stations to protect their delegates from "imperialistic contamination," more than 50,000 young Reds a day swarmed into the Western sector to have a look around; 1,590 asked for asylum. Most...
From Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week came a sweeping order formalizing the obvious: all Christian missions, schools and hospitals supported by Americans are taken under strict Communist control. Other provisions: ¶ Missions that cannot support themselves may call on Peking for subsidies (or shut up shop). ¶ Missionaries who "oppose the People's Government" will be dismissed, and those charged with "crimes" will be punished. ¶ Missionaries who are "not reactionary" may stay on, but only in subordinate positions...