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...gloomier moments Poet T. S. Eliot predicted that Western civilization's sole enduring monuments would be "the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls." Not if Bart Leiper of Gatlinburg, Tenn. has his way. Leiper, a drumbeater for the local Chamber of Commerce, needed a gimmick to promote the opening of Gatlinburg's new Pigeon Forge golf course and hit on a surefire teaser: atomic golf balls. At nearby Oak Ridge he persuaded scientists to inject three golf balls with pellets of radioactive cobalt 60, happily headed home to Gatlinburg with the fixings. On opening day last...
...courage light the absurd void to which he is condemned. Mortal man, in fact, is forever alive, whereas immortal Count Fosca, who has lost all hope, is really as dead as a doornail. FREEDOM is SLAVERY, said Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four. LIFE is DEATH, say the gloomier among the existentialists...
...Indonesians to rebuild their nation is now charitable (Harvard-Indonesia project). So is financing student scholarships (the National Scholarship Service) and conclaves at Salzburg where students ponder Student Problems. The term charity needed stretching, granted, but some line will have to be drawn very soon. Even now, in our gloomier moments, we can see dim visions of classmates damning us for want of charity when we fail to donate a record sum for the 25th Reunion fund drive...
When the Government drastically cut civilian materials early this year, few businessmen took a gloomier view of the future than house builders. Some estimated that the industry would be lucky to put up 600,000 houses in 1952 v. 1,090,000 in 1951. But as NPA eased materials, the estimates rose. Last week, as the first day of spring officially "opened" the construction season, builders got a pleasant surprise. Housing starts were at the rate of 950,000 a year; materials were so plentiful that builders will be able to put up all the houses they can sell...
Superior Plane. The details were even gloomier. The MIGs have inflicted punishing losses on daylight raids, have forced U.S. bombers to operate almost entirely at night and singly. "In many respects," Vandenberg admitted, "the MIG can out perform our own F-86-the only airplane in production today capable of challenging the MIG on approximately even terms." Above 25,000 ft., it can outrun and outclimb the F-86, and it can maneuver at supersonic speeds. U.S. pilots claim that with its two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. cannon the MIG is better armed than the F-86 with...