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...Unthinkable Thoughts." As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright is a man whose opinion carries some weight, and in his 70-minute speech he offered some weighty opinions. "We are confronted with a complex and fluid world situation, and we are not adapting ourselves to it," he said. "We are clinging to old myths in the face of new realities." The rules of the game have changed, Fulbright was saying, and the U.S. will be outscored unless it starts doing some hard thinking about "a growing category of 'unthinkable thoughts...
...child who is too young to read, the word "Poison" on a medicine bottle or a cleaning-fluid can is no protection. Neither is the once-popular, now little-used, device of the skull and crossbones; children either don't know what it means, or they associate it with exciting TV programs about pirates. Last week the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association began a statewide campaign to lessen some of the childhood hazards in a chemically fertile age by enlisting the aid of the kids...
Died. Alexander Archipenko, 76, Ukrainian-born sculptor who in 1909 shocked Paris by giving a third dimension to the cubism of Braque and Picasso, produced in the years that followed a 1,000-piece gallery of fluid and generally bulbous angularities (among the best-known: The Boxer and Gondolier), developing many popular techniques, such as the use of hunks of glass and mother-of-pearl, tunneling holes through anatomy long before Henry Moore; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...have appreciated the usefulness of bringing together in one article the evidence of the present crisis in values, which threatens not this or that code but the survival of any code at all. And they also seem to have recognized that, if we took sides, we did so against fluid, "relative" ethics and against moral indifference about...
Backed by funds from the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Davis plans to set his 100,000-gal. tank in a mine at least 5,000 ft. deep to protect it from cosmic rays. Only neutrinos will reach the tank's supply of perchlorethy-lene, a cleaning fluid containing about one quarter of chlorine 37. Dr. Davis estimates that out of the countless trillions of solar neutrinos that will be passing through the tank, between four and eleven per day will react with chlorine 37 atoms...