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Because of this doom and gloom atmosphere the scientists produce whenever they apply pencil to paper, I would not suggest reading ASF in one concentrated dose. It becomes dull after a while when the veneer of scientific plausibility and shrewd story telling loses its novelty and only the tears remain. But for all that, ASF is produced for more than just the science-fiction devotees, and taken with restraint, is a welcome relief from the heavy tomes of reading period...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor locked doors, nor tightfisted undergraduates can keep these couriers from selling tickets to the postmen's ball...
...state of the nation's air defenses, Chairman Lyndon Johnson of Texas was ready to hear the worst. Results of the subcommittee's preliminary studies, he said, had been "deeply disturbing." The testimony of the week's two main witnesses did little to disperse the gloom...
...America's European allies as "unrecognizably neurotic" and disloyal. But this week Editor John Chamberlin sent a "Newest Freeman" to fifty university cities. It sports a glossy cover and four full page ads--but what is more important, The Freeman has sobered up. Its former hysteria has dissolved into gloom...
Upon the growing gloom...