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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most eminent anatomists believe that they have been found...
...between $900,000 and $2,000,000, and Christian officials are pressing for full reparations. The Israeli government has promised special consideration when its Parliament considers a bill for the settlement of all war damages. Said Premier David Ben-Gurion: Israel will pay for church damage "where we are found to be responsible. I couldn't imagine any possible conflict between us and the Catholic Church...
Despite its gloom over the Senate's fatal ratification" of the North Atlantic pact, the arch-isolationist Chicago Tribune (circ. 957,000) still found one ray of sunshine last week. Cried the Trib: there is now, in Washington, "an outpost of American principles . . . better provisioned, better sited and no less valiantly defended, we hope, than young George Washington's Fort Necessity."* What Trib Publisher Bertie McCormick meant was that he had just bought the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000) from the seven "faithful employees" to whom his cousin, the late Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, had bequeathed...
...solar system swarms with asteroids (probably fragments of a shattered planet), but the new-found asteroid is extraordinary. Instead of being almost circular, its orbit is a long ellipse. Revolving around the sun in about 360 days, it passes inside the orbit of Mercury and comes within 22 million miles of the sun. Then it recedes to 156 million miles, beyond the orbit of Mars. No other known asteroid visits both places...
...village to talk philosophy with bakers, blacksmiths and shopkeepers. He pedaled his way to grimy Black Country potteries to speak on political science. Night after night, he tramped through muddy lanes to lecture under the auspices of Britain's Workers Education Association, which he himself had helped to found...