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...Science cannot flourish under the domination of a social system," he told an interviewer before leaving for Paris to attend a conference on U.N. research laboratories. "It must be free and not warped to fit an irrelevant plan...To the extent that they are prostituting their, sciences in this direction, the Russians will be the losers." But, he added wistfully, "we shall lose some also, because they are excellent scientists, and they with us could help so much in the great scientific attacks on the ignorance, diseases, and the poverty...
...enjoyed freedom of discussion, were generous in their appreciation of British and other foreign scientists, and were "anxious to exchange ideas, results and visits." Summing up, Huxley said: "It is certainly clear that without the U.S.S.R., neither a world political organization nor the world's intellectual life can flourish successfully...
...persuasive best. But Siam Doctor is no trumpet call to noble deeds; it is largely a winking kaleidoscope of Oriental reminiscences, studded with startling clinical notes. Dr. May found that just as tropical forests outgrow and outbloom Western vegetation, so do some diseases in the tropics flourish with a luxuriance that amounts to melodrama. An ovarian cyst, Annamite-style, has been known to weigh more than the half-starved body in which it grew. Hernias often achieve a size "so gigantic as to have lost all possibilities of residence inside the abdomen...
Preceded by a modest automobile escort, it came at last down streets reverberating with banzais. At one place the crowd made a quick spontaneous rush from the curb, almost surrounding the imperial car. Nodding happily to them and waving his shapeless grey hat with the flourish of an old campaigner, Hirohito looked more like a successful and extroverted political leader than the scared sovereign...
...Final Flourish. The next day General Clay climbed nervously into an open convertible, sat himself on the top of the back seat and rolled slowly up Broadway to receive Manhattan's traditional hero's welcome-the cheers of 250,000, a bath of ticker tape and confetti and a key to the city from Mayor William O'Dwyer...