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...Metropole in Vienna. *"To pay $20 or $25 a bottle for what is known . . . as 'original Chartreuse' (that manufactured before the expulsion from France of the Pères Chartreux) is . . . to pay a matter of $15 for a superiority which simply does not exist" (Schoonmaker and Marvel, The Complete Wine Book...
Most people outside of Pennsylvania never heard of Mr. Walter until last week. Then they heard less about him than about his Walter-Logan Bill (cosponsor: Kentucky's late Senator Marvel Mills Logan) and its tempestuous passage through the House. They heard nothing about a Kentucky colonel who had more to do with the bill than Mr. Walter did. The colonel: Ollie Roscoe McGuire, chairman of the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Administrative Law, and a viewer-with-alarm of U. S. bureaucracy...
...this most recent chapter of Labor's history, political moralists could find much to marvel at, little to approve. Labor's Magna Charta was obviously in peril; equally obviously, the peril had arisen in part from zealotry in the Government and greed in the house of Labor itself...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
Last week Dr. Pincus exhibited a further marvel-a fatherless rabbit, born from an ovum which had never encountered the male fertilizing element at all. This process, called parthenogenesis, occurs naturally among certain insects, has been artificially induced by man in sea urchins and frogs, but never before in a mammal. Dr. Pincus used high temperature, hormone treatments and hypertonic salt solutions* to fertilize the ovum, and his canny microsurgical technique got the egg well started toward normal development in the host mother's reproductive tract...