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...result, WHRB is forming a committee "to draw up a code of continuity acceptance" similar to those used by other stations to govern commercial copy. The code will be presented to the full board of WHRB by the end of February...
...that [Adlai] Stevenson is employing the [present] Congressional campaign as a springboard to the Democratic renomination for President two years hence, it seems obvious that a Democratic Congress would spend the next two years in trying to persuade the voters not only that the Republican party is unfit to govern but also that the President is a failure as Chief Executive and party leader and has permitted "Big Business" to take over the country. This strategy, indeed, is already apparent in the campaign overtures sounded by all Democratic leaders...
...Clement Attlee came back home last week and promptly let the strongest of them fall on the public ear. "The sooner we get rid of Chiang Kai-shek and his troops, the better it will be," said the 71-year-old Labor Party chieftain, who hopes soon again to govern Britain...
Suppressing the Facts. Superficially there was little resemblance to that ugly outbreak of anti-Semitism and politics in the French army in the 1890s. What the two cases did have in common was their threat to the whole fabric of government. Men of integrity in the Italian government tried to suppress the Montesi case, not because they were themselves enveloped in its murky mists but because a whole governing society regarded itself, and its competence to govern, involved in the revelations of privileges, corruption and injustice. The government dared not abandon investigation of the case, but was unwilling to pursue...
Unnatural Laws. The things that science deals with, said Gold, range in size from electrons (radius 10 -13 cm) to the universe itself (radius 10 27 cm). Man, the earth and the solar system lie midway between the two extremes, and the laws that govern them have become so familiar that any deviation seems wrong. But gravitation, one ruling common-sense force, is ignored by subatomic particles, which are attracted to one another by enormously strong forces effective only at very short distances. To explain events in the "microphysical" world, scientists need the "unnatural" rules of quantum theory...