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...essay is written with a kind of urgency less eloquent than headlong. When the atom bomb vaporized Hiroshima, he says, it rendered obsolete "every aspect of man's activities, from machines to morals, from physics to philosophy, from politics to poetry." If man does not wish to become extinct as well as obsolete, he must do something at once. What he must do, cries Cousins, is to create a world superstate. He cites the example of the 13 American colonies, which Benjamin Franklin said, must hang together or they would all hang separately. The nations which survived World...
...visit to Germany taught him that unions become extinct under dictatorships. His stint as a tool & die maker in Russia's famed Gorky automobile plant taught him that unions thrive only where there is free speech. He returned to Detroit just as the U.A.W. was organizing, in 1935. Naturally, he joined...
...meeting of the Manx Tynwald, claimed by Manxmen to be the world's oldest parliament. Seated on a red, canopied throne atop a 20-foot mound, which Vikings had built a millennium ago, the royal visitors bravely heard 15 laws read to the assembled people in the nearly extinct Manx language (which their Majesties do not understand). They were given $1,000,000 to help defray the cost of the war. (Unlike the rest of Britain, the Isle of Man, which enjoys nominal home rule, remained at war with Germany between World Wars...
...Cowles began by asking himself: why did the dinosaur become extinct? Dismissing the usual theories (the dinosaur's unwieldy size, an increase in the earth's carbon dioxide, etc.) Dr. Cowles decided that it was much more likely that dinosaurs simply perished of a declining birth rate-just stopped breeding during an interglacial heat wave. Last week he was ready to document his theory that there is a definite relation between heat and male fertility...
...standbys of yester-Yule, things like the 15? handkerchief and the $1 necktie, were as extinct as the dodo. Christmas, 1944, might be merry; it would certainly be costly...