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...selling. He learned quickly that a book was worth what someone would pay for it, and he became adept at nurturing the gluttony of those who could pay. An early client was a rich young Philadelphian named Harry Widener, who went down with the Titanic; his collection became the nucleus of Harvard's Widener Library. The doctor's Philadelphia shop was hardly grand enough for his new trade, and he opened a New York branch in a baronial town house on Madison Avenue. His hospitality was lavish; during Prohibition he entertained guests with the best whisky procurable...
...boss of his nation's armed forces, decided that the 1960 parade would not be complete without some jets flying in close formation overhead. To fulfill his dream, the prince got a promise from Morocco's former French masters of twelve Mistral jet fighters to form the nucleus of a new Royal Moroccan Air Force. Last week, on the eve of the "three glorious days," the French welshed, irritated with Morocco's increasingly active support of the Algerian rebels...
However, the committee came out in favor of a new University hymnal based on a nucleus of hymns from a denominational book. The Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, Acting Minister, will hold an open meeting this Sunday to discuss further suggestions...
...control the development of the embryo, but they are not sure how these instructions are brought to bear. One theory is that some central part of the embryo issues orders that make each tissue and organ develop. Another is that the multiplying cells, each of which has in its nucleus a set of instructions, organize themselves independently of any cellular high command...
...proud history, the U.S. Army has suffered no more galling defeats than it did on the nation's peacetime rocket ranges after World War II. With a group of ex-Nazi rocketmen as its nucleus (Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus), the Army bled its budget to set up in the missile business-and, in fact, saved the nation's face by launching the first U.S. satellite after Sputnik. But the Defense Department ruled that long-range rocketing was properly the role for the Air Force, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal was turned over to the National...