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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three a day, holds frequent gatherings of his own. Famous among U.N. delegations are Lodge's "sing fests," at which he lets go in a sonorous baritone in any of several languages, urges guests to let go, too. Even shy, reserved Secretary-General Hammarskjold has been known to join in a chorus. Lodge's favorite solo: a faintly bawdy ditty called She's a Personal Friend of Mine...
...Voices has modesty and some good writing on its side. The Harvard community has been known to read anything that was worth reading--even in long hand. And the gentlmanly leisure with which the editors approach the business of putting out a magazine is a lollipop in the long hotsummer of intense young men and their ambitious literature...
Little is known about the radiation belt. Explorer III, with a single Geiger counter, reported only that the radiation was strong enough to jam the counter's tube. The more sophisticated instruments of Explorer IV, two Geiger counters and two scintillation counters, are designed to measure the radiation accurately and tell what kind it is. They will report over two radio transmitters, a high-powered one on 108.03 megacycles, a low-powered one at 108 megacycles, both with chemical batteries. Explorer IV has no solar battery, no magnetic tape, no mouse...
...best two stories are by Tibor Dery. and his theme is the facelessness of oppression in totalitarian life. In Love, the guards at a Budapest prison inexplicably turn loose one "B," who has been in prison for seven years. But his crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when...
...Sang Freud. Near Ahmedabad, India, when his bride went home to her mother after a quarrel, a husband-known only as Vala-went after her, lopped off his mother-in-law's nose, carried his wife away...