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...Rexford G. Tugwell, a member of president Roosevelt's celebrated Brain Trust from 1933 to 1936, yesterday cited President Eisenhower's request earlier in the year for Congressional approval to intervene in the Middle East as an example of executive failure to assume power during national crisis...
Patience is not most distinguished either musically or lyrically among the works of the great Gilbert and Sullivan. But the Harvard G and S players have been able to over-ride with enthusiasm and charming verve the inadequacies and datedness of their material. On the whole, this spoof at Victorian artsycraftsiness comes off very well...
From one of West Germany's principal nuclear-research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government...
Comet Arend-Roland was discovered last Nov. 8 by S. Arend and G. Roland of the Royal Observatory at Uccle. Belgium. At that time it was a faint, hazy object, much too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers studied its motion and decided that it would pass within 30 million miles of the sun. Heading for outer space again, it will come within about 52 million miles of the earth on April...
...makers bought 35 million lbs. less tobacco last year than in 1955, and tobaccoland farmers are howling. In North Carolina, where two-thirds of U.S. cigarette tobacco is grown, the state senate recently urged Congress to order that cigarette ingredients be stated on every package. Complained State Senator Henry G. Shelton: "What is happening to the cigarette is a shame. It is scrap tobacco at one end, cellulose at the other and tissue paper all around...