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...today's technology, crude as it is. He could, suggests Air Force Lieut. Colonel S. E. Singer in the Air University Quarterly Review, store the sun's abundant heat energy (daytime heat 248° F.) with inertial flywheels (which are inefficient on earth because of atmospheric friction), and control his heating during the −200° F. cold lunar nights. He could, adds Physicist Singer, extract water from rock; then from the water, by means of electrolysis, could come oxygen to sustain him, and hydrogen for fuels and chemical synthesis, and for growing food by hydroponics...
...surprised at this turn of events. The fact that China's revolution occurred later, its doctrinaire line and insistence on "communes," and the traditional fear of Russian expansion into China--these factors will continue to create friction between the two powers regardless of what happens to India and to the Russian disarmament proposal...
...three-man commission appointed to study town-gown friction in New Haven has published a series of proposals to improve relations between Yale and the surrounding community. Named on March 30 by Richard C. Lee, Mayor of New Haven, the commission was set up after riots following a St. Patrick's Day parade caused the arrest of 16 students...
...committed to nothing." Yet even those members of the University who are "committed men," who, like Demos, do believe, often see the critical examination of ideas as the best method for arriving at truth. Reverend George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, sees truth arising "from the friction of friendly minds." Thus the University becomes almost a playing field where issues of possible eternal salvation and damnation are gentlemanly tossed around by polite opponents. The danger with this method, however, is clear. If University discussion takes on the atmosphere of a sporting match, too often momentous ideas can become mere...
General unanimity seems to exist that Harvard is secular, despite its Protestant Divinity School. Harvard's present secularist position, though, represents the end product of a long evolution, and the vestiges of earlier evidences of a sectarian and religious past have sometimes caused friction...