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Flowers & Porcelain. Since he left his native Scotland as a boy, Clark Kerr has spent his life in a dozen capitals on four continents selling sweet British reasonableness. He looks and chats like the headmaster of a fashionable boys' school. Preferring hound's tooth jackets and mixed tweeds to ambassadorial tails, he would sooner talk on Scottish wild flowers and Chinese porcelains than on politics and policies. But few diplomats can be more persuasive in ten languages...
...responsible scientists objected to the basic purpose of the May-Johnson bill. Virtually all of them agreed that atomic energy was a frightful force which might, in improper hands, destroy the human race. But they hoped that Congress would be careful. Said one: "Scientific research is like a porcelain egg. Clutch it too tightly, it shatters - and you have nothing...
...mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
...already put 6,800 enterprises, employing 800,000 workers, under Government management. The nationalization of loyal Czechoslovak industry, banks and insurance companies (with compensation) is proceeding more slowly, encountering more difficulties. Up for Government ownership on the official list are mines, utilities, foundries, armament and chemical plants, pottery, porcelain and glass factories, cement, textile and metal factories. For the present, businesses employing fewer than 500 workers are exempt. The end objective: 70% nationalized, 30% free...
...first made his paints of crushed jewels (rubies, emeralds, etc.), then substituted a cheaper material, colored corundum, which seemed to work just as well. He says his paint has passed all chemical and heat tests with high marks, expects it to be widely used by artists-especially makers of porcelain and stained glass and decorators of monuments...