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...Moley, Journalists Ernest K. Lindley and Virginius Dabney) to rate the 100 most significant events in history. First place: Columbus' discovery of America. Second: Gutenberg's development of movable type. Eleven events tied for third place. Tied for fourth place: U.S. Constitution takes effect, ether makes surgery painless, X ray discovered, Wright brothers' plane flies, Jesus Christ is crucified...
...states would soon find the maintenance of separate but actually equal facilities too costly to continue, and, what with the gradually improving economic status of the Negro, segregation would die a natural and comparatively painless death...
...without written consent of parents or guardians. Each child selected will receive three injections, each of 1 cc. of triple vaccine in water, the first two shots a week apart, the third (booster) shot a month later. All shots will be given in the arm and should be virtually painless...
...delegate] knows that we'll check up on him, go after other sources, dig around a little, maybe develop a story. But look at that [TV] program: no embarrassing questions; a chance to tell the world why he is heaven's gift to diplomacy; a big audience; painless. He's smart. What does he want to talk to newspapermen...
...bored with their jobs because they "selected their vocation in a search for security instead of adventure." ¶ Seek maturity, advised Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey, through a "liberating education." In the modern world, "the immature are dismayed with disappointment and they demand answers which promise quick, sure, painless solutions. The immature are sure that only a knave or a fool . . . could have made a losing bet. The mature mind resists the search for panaceas and scapegoats . . ." ¶ Overspecialization is what worries Hamilton College's (Clinton, N.Y.) Robert Ward McEwen. Specialists tend to get so wrapped...