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...Army hospitals across the U.S. last week were 7,000 or more men who had been gravely wounded in Korea. Only five years ago, many of them would have been lying under some far-away soil, with only a wooden marker to show that they had lost the last battle. Now, thanks to improvements in the art of medicine-and especially in the logistics of military medicine-nearly all would live. The death rate among the wounded in Korea, said Dr. Richard L. Meiling, the Department of Defense director of Medical Services, was the lowest in the nation...
...far-away look came into Yermakov's eyes as he explained, "I went down there over spring vacation and met some of them." Then he turned his head away and let out a low howl. Becoming serious again, he added, "But this is only until I earn enough money to come back to Harvard to stay...
Professors Bart J. Bok and Harlow Shapley are trying to map this huge disc-shaped "island universe," which includes the earth and every star that the naked eye can see. Both of them are measuring the distance to far-away suns, to determine their relative positions in the galaxy and thus the shape of the galaxy itself...
...hydra-headed collosi we know as corporations are more familiar, and often more respected. After a brilliant reporting job on a crew and its union activity at sea, Boyer describes the union as a working democracy, as part of the lives of its members, and not as simply a far-away bureaucracy which has lost touch with the people it represents...
Down at the Weld Boat House they aren't saying much about Harvard's future in the rowing business, but every once in a while someone mentions the 1948 Olympics. When this happens the men seem to get the far-away look and the feeling of wanderlust runs rampant...