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...York woman schoolteacher stopped me dead. When I asked her to give a map demonstration, she stood in a most awkward position, and I told her to move over to the other side. "I wouldn't dare to work myself into a corner so far away from the door," she said seriously . . . "First thing a woman teacher learns in our school is never to get too far away from the door...
...Driberg believes that Russia is not intrinsically expansionist ? If I were he, I'd compare the world map of 1939 with the one in 1953, and then shudder. For a not intrinsically expansionist country, Russia, who is doing very well for herself, might well have England on her future list...
...most telling tactic of the Russians was their teamwork. In tournament chess matches, it is illegal to prompt a player as he sits at the board, but when a game has been adjourned (e.g., overnight), it is perfectly proper to take counsel from "seconds" (other players, who help map further strategy). The Russians happily seconded one another at every opportunity; Reshevsky's second was his non-chess-playing wife. Sipping countless cups of tea, Reshevsky managed to wind up in a triple tie for second place with two Russians...
...Massachusetts General, Dr. Lipmann did most of his work with an unlikely material: pigeon livers. "You have to follow your nose," he says. "You don't map it out. You try one experiment, then another, and bring some sense into it." This method led him, by 1945, to the isolation of coenzyme A, one of the most important trigger chemicals in the body. Dr. Lipmann has shown that his coenzyme is a factor in the body's production of vital substances such as fatty acids and steroid hormones. Some researchers hope that it may help to track down...
Army private in 1942 and rose to become Eisenhower's personal assistant* and biographer (Man from Abilene), energetic Kevin McCann, 49, has dedicated himself to the once unlikely proposition that Defiance can be put on the map...