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...arguments of the city planners and University officials, reinforced by red tape, appear to be fairly cogent. They depict the situation as an almost impossible labyrinth of physical and political problems. Their only hope seems to lie in a messianic revalation. Witness a line from the 1961 budget summary that city manager John J. Curry submitted to the Council: "All have confidence that new and modern construction is on the way, but until it appears, extreme caution is necessary." This sort of argument tumbles like a house of cards in the face of a singular refutation--John Briston Sullivan...
...past, some of the treatments for Meniere's disease have been almost as bad as the disease. Surgery to destroy the diseased part of one labyrinth ends the vertigo but leaves the whole job of balancing to the other ear and the eyes. It also deafens the ear involved. Another supposed cure has been the injection of alcohol into the nerves leading from the ear to the brain, but this sometimes causes facial paralysis. Now, in Edinburgh, the electrical engineering firm of Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd. is perfecting an ultrasonic gun that doctors hope will cure crippling cases...
Bobby Kennedy has never practiced law privately but, for his age, he has had valuable experience in the Federal Government's legal labyrinth. Soon after he graduated from the University of Virginia law school (1951), he joined the Justice Department's criminal division as a junior investigator, plunged into the ultimately unsuccessful prosecution of Foreign Policy Adviser Owen Lattimore for Communist activities. In 1952 Bobby moved over to be assistant counsel of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee, but quit after a much-publicized row with Chief Counsel Roy Cohn. Later Bobby rejoined the committee as minority...
...National Review Magazine. It is revealing to know that along with myself there is a brilliant editor and 31,913 subscribers who believe that unless the trend toward liberalism in government and politics is checked, our lives soon will become no more than a prepaid, state-supported labyrinth of sameness in which each of us is distinguished from the other only by number...
Million-Mile Radio. Since rocket test shots are almost useless unless the rocket sends information about its performance, J.P.L. was forced to explore the electronic labyrinth of telemetering. One electronic job led to another, and now J.P.L. products ride in nearly all U.S. satellites, reporting the magnetism, heat and cosmic rays encountered in the unknown reaches of space. Such information has grown so voluminous that J.P.L. has its own computer to interpret it. For tracking space vehicles far out in the solar system, J.P.L. has built a radio telescope 85 ft. in diameter in the Mojave Desert, which can track...