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...18th Century death seemed "selfconscious . . . with . . . eyes less on God than on the bystanders." When the priest rose to leave Mme. Pompadour's bedside, she stopped him. "One moment, M. le Curé," she said, "and we will depart together." Cracked Voltaire, when a lamp flared in his death chamber: "The flames? Already...
...saving of these human lives is more than an economic necessity to the recovery of the world. It is more even than the path to order and to stability and to peace. Such action marks the return of the lamp of compassion to the world. And that is part of the moral and spiritual reconstruction of the earth...
...Fiddle," said Ibis. "Sticks," intoned Jester, reclining in a rine-backed loda. "Maybe we did something wicked. Do you think United Press will persecute us for it?" "perhaps not," mused a weeming twerple from the corner, "because I asked the gentleman by yonder lamp post and he said he didn't see a Crime...
Already Ganso Azul has brought new life into the Peruvian Montana. Indians who never saw a lamp come with bottles and even hollow canes for kerosene. With wicks stuffed into tin cans, they now have lights in their huts. A balanced diet of vegetables, fruit, beef, pork and chicken for the company's 250 employes has by example encouraged better living habits among other Indians...
Atomic Doodling. So far, only a few scientists connected with the Manhattan Project have been allowed to experiment freely with the pile's products. But outsiders, letting their imaginations soar, have dreamed up many uses: one possibility, a radioactive lamp that might glow for months or years...