Word: objectives
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Taking these figures into account, and reckoning the average New Yorker as being two feet wide and one foot deep (height no object, we discovered the following interesting statistics...
...ticklish religious questions might offend Roman Catholics, officials at last fall's Venice Film Festival refused at first to show the picture. But though God Needs Men ventures into the same delicate area as Director Rossellini's controversial Miracle (TIME, Feb. 26), Catholics apparently found nothing to object to in Director Delannoy's handling of the theme. After the Venice officials reconsidered their ban, God Needs Men took a grand prize at the festival, later won a special award from the International Catholic Film Office...
...Zoology Professor H. W. Lissmann of Cambridge, England, a friend in West Africa sent a small, odd fish with the impressive name Gymnarchus niloticus. It swam forward and backward with equal facility, and it carried a mysterious object m its fingerlike tail. Professor Lissmann put the fish in an aquarium, and admired its skill in avoiding obstacles even when swimming backward. The fish's strange tail, he thought, seemed to be acting like a natural radar...
Another point of the meeting was that Commuters should have been able to vote on the dues which were levied on them for the first time this fall by the Student Government. Although they don't object to the dues, they think that such matters should be decided by the people concerned...
Charm School Notes. In San Antonio, Policeman Joe Melody denied that he had kissed a housewife three times: she was not wearing her false teeth at the time of the alleged offense, he said, and a toothless woman does not constitute "a kissable object...