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...narrow, pale, somewhat dead face, which is not. however, insensitive. Standing or sitting, he holds himself watchfully, easily erect, with great dignity, conscious of who he is. He is well educated, by the standards of his profession, and an avid reader...
Letter-writers to the Alumni Bulletin in the spring of 1946 were wroth indeed--48 columns wroth, in fact, with amounts of outrage, protest, and indignation thrown in. That spring, it seems, the University had decided to rip down the ancient, tradition-mellowed Dana-Palmer House and erect Lamont Library on its site...
Poor Neighbors. In spite of imaginative efforts to make the planets sound attractive, scientists consider earth's neighborhood rather slummy. But the space planners are optimistic. Colonists on the airless moon, they say. could erect Plexiglas domes and fill them with any atmosphere they liked. They could grow bumper crops in the unfailing sunlight, could extract metals and oxygen from the rocks. Arthur C. Clarke in The Explora, tion of Space argues that man might thrive under such conditions better than he does on earth...
...elderly gentleman with the erect military bearing who strides through the Athens suburb of Ekali on fine mornings is the new Premier of Greece: Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. An Alsatian dog, Fritz, trots by his side, but gone are the two carloads of soldiers who accompanied him everywhere when he was leading the fight against the Communist guerrillas three years...
Busy Farms. One big exception was the price of farm land; it was still rising, though more slowly than a year ago. Already, values were 24% higher than before Korea. Most of the buyers were city folk, looking for a place to farm weekends and to erect a hedge against further inflation. Many of the sellers were estates or farmers overwhelmed by a lush offer far in excess of their property's value as a working enterprise. The one exception: big ranches in the Western grasslands, where steer prices have dipped about 7? a pound, now bring 20% less...