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Stevenson said that in these days of scientific and technological advance, "tradition, or habit, or 'conventional wisdom' is not sufficient." He stated that "we can rely on only the rational response of trained minds...
...heard to a Republican State Central Committee meeting. And at the Governor's press conference, reporters asked the inevitable question. Brown could not stop replying. "I may have used a rough word," he said. "It was not a profane word. I believe that I have gotten in the habit during the legislative session of using some words that probably a Governor shouldn't use, but I was speaking generally rather than specifically...
...result was disaster. Louis chose a daughter of the Prince de Condé, whose family ran to madness as some families run to fat. Condé had a habit of barking convulsively-though at court he usually managed to stuff his mouth with a silk drapery when he felt such an attack coming...
...things. Their thin wood-frame houses which cover two unpaved streets near the center of town are cracked and peeling. One wonders (as, most likely, people have wondered for the past 30 years) just how much longer these houses could last. Many of these Negroes could afford better, but habit and the relatively low rents set by their colored landlord have kept them immobile...
...Having spent much of his lifetime in the air, Cooper therefore had few fears about space flight. During his Mercury training period, medics were somewhat upset by his habit of falling asleep during the lengthy physical checks. And he was equally unflappable last Tuesday morning when he crawled into his capsule atop an Atlas missile at Canaveral's Pad 14 and waited six hours on his contour couch-for a launch that did not come that day. The countdown was stalled for more than two hours, while some of the world's most brilliant electronics and computer experts...