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...From Pravda: "All peace-aspiring nations are deeply indignant over the monstrous atrocities of the U.S. soldiery...
Swooping Gondola. Last week the Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. unveiled a monstrous apparatus for studying the effect of G-forces on fragile human flesh. In a trim, museumlike building, a soft, cantilever arm whirls in a horizontal circle, carrying on its end a lens-shaped aluminum "gondola" where the helpless "airman" sits. The gondola can be tilted at any angle, directing the G-force in any direction through the passenger's body. Driven by a 4,000-h.p. motor, the arm can generate 15 Gs (much more than a man can stand) in less than...
...aggressive admissions policy like those adopted by the Ivy "Big Four" will inevitably lead some people to regard the program as a monstrous athletic-purhasing spree. In their joint statement, however, the presidents of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. "In order to prevent misunderstanding and misrepresentation," made it quite clear that they are not giving athletic scholarships...
With the familiar yell of "Up to Radcliffe", the mob headed north. One group built a monstrous bonfire, while another constructed a barricade across Concord Avenue. When the smoke and gas had cleared, only one student had been arrested, but 400 others went home minus their Bursar's cards...
...very difficult to find my way back," says Dr. Cohen now. "I was exhausted, and psychologically not very sound. I didn't know what I should do." Soon he knew: he would make a psychological analysis of both the miserable prisoners and their monstrous jailers in the concentration camps. The result, Het Duitse Concentratiekamp, was selling so well last week that it was in its second edition-a rare thing for a doctoral thesis...