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...Hitherto Russian influence had operated most effectively in the backward regions of Europe and Asia. But, as a result of World War II, Russian influence was marching into political power in Italy and France, would soon close in on Austria and a large part of Germany. There was one way in which the western nations, for whom even an economically secure life without political liberty was not worth living, could meet this challenge-by freeing themselves from want, fear and suffering while remaining free. The history of the next 20 or 30 years would report their success or failure...
Observers noted with surprise that the Pan-Arab agreement covered not only education, finance, trade and law, but, unexpectedly, Arab foreign policy, which has hitherto mostly been a British preserve. No Arab state would be permitted to conclude a treaty with a foreign power "contrary to general Arab policy or the interests of any Arab State." Was the foreign power Britain, which has extensive treaty relations with the Arab states? Would Britain acquiesce...
...green freshman, hitherto the lowest form of campus life, is wearing a hero's helmet this fall. Without him there would be little or no college football -except at West Point and Annapolis...
...best previous yield in the Moscow latitude. He had also got the first live seeds from attempts to cross wheat and rye with a desert plant (Elymus giganteus), which may make it possible to grow those grains almost anywhere, thus opening to cultivation 150,000,000 acres of hitherto untillable Soviet land. The biggest news, however, was this: Nikolay Tsitsin appeared on the verge of perfecting a perennial, self-sowing wheat-the dream of farmers all over the world...
Among the horrors of war in the South Pacific is filariasis (rhymes with diocese), a mosquito-borne, hitherto incurable disease. It sometimes develops into elephantiasis, particularly of the scrotum. The number of military cases runs into the hundreds, mostly jungle-fighting marines who have been evacuated to U.S. hospitals. The Navy has described filariasis as the "hardest single thing" facing its doctors. But last week the Journal of the American Medical Association announced a drug which attacks the parasites causing the disease...