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Shotgun on Main Street. Bill Ogle sees no paradox in the fact that he can be coldly analytical about the bomb, yet apprehensive about the world that the bomb is creating. "You may not be sure that what your country is doing is right in the long run," he explains. "But nevertheless you do what your country wants done." As a scientist with the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory since getting his doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois in 1944, Ogle has participated in every atomic test series since 1945, has witnessed more than...
...followers have defied all reason to proclaim that the Jew of Nazareth was the Son of God, who, by dying for man's sin, reconciled the world to its Creator and returned to life in his glory. Christianity has always been content to stand or fall by this paradox, this mystery, this unfathomable truth. "If Christ has not been raised," wrote St. Paul to the young church of Corinth, "then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins...
...Paradox in Argentina...
...Enticing as this prospect is, Freeman's program would set up the strictest set of federal controls in U.S. agricultural history, making the farmer little more than a Government hireling. The Freeman program is almost certainly doomed to dilution at the hands of Congress. And it is a paradox that Orville Freeman is losing a policy war even while winning a personal battle...
...overlooked paradox: Joan Crawford (Our Dancing Daughters) was forced to change her name to a more girl-next-door appellation because her real name was too showy-Lucille Le Sueur...