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...less than a month. Last week it broke below the 800 mark, at which all earlier slides in 1969 had been stopped. It closed at 793, the lowest level in nearly three years. For investors who had put their faith in some popular blue chips, the story was even glummer. During the week, General Electric stock sold at its lowest price since 1963; Union Carbide was the lowest since 1954, and Allied Chemical the lowest since...
Would the morning star live up to the romance of science and turn out to be teeming with life? Were there, as some romanticists confidently expected, forests of intelligent, moving trees? Or would Mariner prove the accuracy of some of the glummer theories of radio astronomy -that Venus is a barren ball covered with a dull layer of dust? Last week JPL's boss, New Zealand-born Physicist William Hayward Pickering, brought his Mariner team to Washington to deliver a batch of decoded data containing the first series of answers...
...glummer President, reading the reports to the press, might just as honestly have emphasized the bottlenecks, the shortages at hand and to come. But Franklin Roosevelt, beaming like Jack Horner with a plum on his thumb, dismissed his press conference in high humor, with an air of bring-on-the-next-problem, haul-this-one-away...
...excitement about their work, to keep telling them that the worst thing they can do is to study, in the formal sense." Successor to famed Artist Grant Wood, this anti-teaching teacher is husky, slow-spoken, 36-year-old Fletcher Martin, whose drooping red mustachios make him look glummer than he is. Last week Manhattanites had a chance to see some of the examples with which Painter Martin keeps his Iowa classes excited. The Midtown Galleries put on the first all-Martin show to be seen in the East...
...outlook against Cornell, all-American end Brud Holland et al, is rather glum. It is glum enough to realize that they soundly whipped a really topnotch Colgate team, glummer still when you realize that Cornell will outweigh Harvard 21 pounds to a man in the backfield. Still, Harvard is a better underdog than top-dog; that has been proved often...