Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Hogben's purpose is not to teach his young readers their algebra, but to show how man built up his world of signs and symbols to solve the problems of his everyday existence and then to expand his civilization. He starts with the sun and the moon, man's first clocks and calendars, and with the notches that the shepherd cut when counting his flock. Then come the calendar keepers, the powerful group who could tell people when to plant crops. Later men developed more complicated desires. The farmer wanted to know how much land...
...Supreme Court wrote a death notice for state censorship when it denied Kansas' contention that the state could ban the movie The Moon Is Blue as obscene. The ruling means that the five state boards (New York, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kansas) now exist in name only...
Except for the low, seven bob price of tickets and the high, Edwardian bob of loitering Teddy Boys, the American theatregoer might mistake London's Piccadilly for a circular Broadway. The King and I, Bell, Book and Candle, Kismet, and Tea House of the August Moon are all current favorites. Such dubious U.S. attractions as The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker and Johnnie Ray have Britons queueing up patiently for each performance. And adapted American productions like My Three Angels and Ondine have found a home here also...
...deposited there. But, many researchers say, it may be simply a group of microscopic platelets-the elements in the blood that initiate clotting. These are too small to do any direct harm. But something else clings to their debris. According to the University of California's Dr. Henry Moon and Dr. James Rinehart, this is a sugar protein. Only after that, they say, does the cholesterol appear. And they do not believe that the sugar protein is the original villain: that, the San Francisco researchers contend, is a deficiency of vitamin B 6 (found in liver and egg yolk...
...gall, is divided into three parts, 1) slapstick, 2) situation comedies, 3) synthetic shyness. Last week a baker's dozen of high-priced comics was laboring hard in all three varieties spraying each other with Seltzer, spinning out plots as remote from reality as life on the moon, or being browbeaten by guest stars and fellow actors...