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...chair while the secretary briskly pecked out the latest publicity release. Sitting at another desk, the publicity man continued a telephone conversation, then rose to greet us. After rummaging about in a small file, he came up with an armful of press releases, packed them in an envelop, and, blotting out the Herter frank on the upper left corner, thrust it upon...
...denying Corliss Lamont a passport for European travel, the State Department has begun to draw an iron curtain which is as great a danger as its Russian counterpart to understanding and spreading democracy. This is the curtain of an unofficial "house arrest" which may envelop individuals whose particular brand of "Americanism" conflicts with the preachings of Senators McCarthy and McCarran--State Department critics who spend more time than the Supreme Court in interpreting and defending the Constitution...
Space Travelers. Even if the space travelers survive their first hazards, they will have plenty of other things to worry about. Fog would envelop the cabin after the slightest perspiration on the part of the passengers. Their hair would stand on end, their clothes would balloon away from their bodies, and anything not nailed down would float aimlessly about the ship's interior. The space ship and its passengers would be bombarded by dangerous solar X rays and cosmic rays, would run the risk of colliding with meteorites plunging across the interplanetary course...
Local traders are missing no opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and envelop themselves in the traditional Christmas baubles, in order to catch undergraduate trade before the December 19 rush decimates the cash-bearing population. To set the pace, the city of Cambridge has already decorated its lamp posts. Yesterday workers finished wrapping the poles with strands of laurel and aluminum, and hung the final pine wreath on top. The cost of this decoration is met by the city with the help of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association...
...surface glance cannot do them justice. One thing, however, marks him as more than the usual scientist or philosopher: his tremendous drive to synthesize and apply philosophy, mathematics, and logic to the world in one thesis which could reach beyond the limits of each pigeon-holed science to envelop the universe...