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Another aspect of the government's lack of cooperation with IGY research provides a fundamental clue to the lag in our missile, as well as our satellite program. The lack of unified work on rocketry was symptomatic of the continued, childish inter-service rivalries. At present, the Defense Department is pushing two intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Navy's and the Air Force's, and two intermediate range missiles, the Army's and the Navy's. Without any exchange of technical information between the feuding branches of the military and without combined financial aid or research efforts, it is little wonder...
Meanwhile, members of the R.O.T.C. staff at the University have revealed a serious drop in this year's enrollment, rising as high as a 50 per cent drop from last year in the Air Force program. Commanders of the three units at the College called this year's lag a serious...
That is how one lag (longterm convict) apostrophized Australia in the early years of the last century, when the continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with...
...Book-of-the-Month Club: S. S. San Pedro (1931), The Last Adam (1933), The Just and the Unjust (1942), and now By Love Possessed. Still another novel, Guard of Honor, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1948. Nevertheless, the hardcover sales of all Cozzens' books combined (140,000) lag well behind that current dreary splash in a small-town sex sump, Peyton Place (250,000 copies). The interior decorators of U.S. letters-the little-magazine critics whose favorite furniture is the pigeonhole-find that Cozzens fits no recent fictional compartments, and usually pretend that he does not exist. This...
There are comic scenes that approach the .best in Sean O'Casey, as when a shrewd old lag with a game leg solicits a massage from a warder in order to get drunk on rubbing alcohol. "Which leg is it?" asks the warder. "To be on the safe side," says Convict Dunlavin, "you'd have to do two of them. It's only the mercy of God I'm not a centipede, sir ... Ah, that's massive, sir. 'Tis you that has the healing hand." The warder turns, and Dunlavin sneaks a great swig...