Word: factualism
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...want to protest TIME's flippant treatment of "Let's Secede from Texas." Any unbiased observer would agree that it was exquisitely factual. C. M. CHRISTENSEN Los Angeles...
...reception room, has no continental outlines, but shows only the world's major routes of communication. Hand-tooled in Nigerian goatskin, the map covers nearly 350 square feet. The legend underneath it says, in part: "The map above you is not a fantasy. It is a factual design of one world man has built upon the earth. It is the particular world of international communication. No land masses appear here, nor oceans. For it is the very essence of communication to transcend these - to render continents into carriers, seas into bridges . . . Here exposed is the nerve system...
...Newsman Kilpatrick peppered Virginia's Governor John S. Battle with some 50 letters - so many that, when he had occasion to write the governor on other matters, he wo'tild preface his letters with the phrase, "Not about Silas Rogers." Kilpatrick wrote a series of cold, factual editorials on the case, deliberately avoided sensationalism for fear that Red-front groups would leap into the fray for propaganda purposes...
Most of the factual information here can be found in the British Foulis books at one-third the price. And the imported works at least refer to an honest engine by its right name: Stein prefers terms like "old lump" or "hot little innards" and modifies them with the word (?) "hairy." But the sloppiness which marks this book reaches a high mark in its "performance figures." Speaking of the successful Allard J-2 competition model, Stein says "130 mph is claimed but I wouldn't know." Actually the Allard's performance is 110 mph and accurate test figures...
...length of the book is undetermined, but the two men are working on alternate chapters. They expect to have seven or eight factual chapters and at least an equal number for evaluation of the facts...