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...Trove. In Minneapolis, workmen began tearing up a pavement, stopped in amazement: they had uncovered six bottles of pre-Prohibition brandy...
...possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more grim than any in Pompeii, the shadow of a human body, fire-stenciled into the pavement of Hiroshima...
Heads Off. Promptly Iranians forgot their anti-British grievances. For the rest of the night they ranged the streets bent on murdering their age-old enemies, the Arabs. Wealthy, pro-British Hussein Gazi, local Arab leader, was clubbed to the pavement, then beheaded on the spot. Sheik Hadji Haddat and his wife were snatched from their car and burned alive in a bakery oven...
There were more of us when we last embraced you, but if you do not see them coming back, do not wait, nor yet forget them. They saw the light that shined on The Way even if their feet did not feel the pavement. They and we stood by you, Veritas--the map you drew for us had been keenly perceived and boldly executed. Your disciples had bravely threshed unordered knowledge and had given us the grain to staff our life. But you seldom feel the sweat and blasphemy of living, while we anxiously look for earthly applications...
...Artena, the citizens put on their shabby Sunday best despite the rain and solemnly went to the polls. In the middle of the main street, painted in huge letters on the rough pavement, was the message: "Vote for the American Republic-Viva VAmerica." A peasant swung his oxcart violently to one side. Said he: "We don't want these wheels going over those words." The wheels of his cart had been salvaged from a German gun carriage...