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...known as Emlyn then, but George. When he was ten, his parents made an expedition to the town of Shotton, where he saw his first movie. The town itself was almost as much of an astonishment as the "livin' pictiars." "Not only were the bicycles going quicker and ringing sharper bells, but the people with the preoccupied faces were walking brisker, the smoke from the strange houses blew faster, and even the town clouds, brown at the edges from smuts and sophistication, raced swifter over a man-made...
Writing recent history can become a painful exercise in intellectual humility. There is no quicker way to discover how much the present dominates our concerns than to try to write about our fathers and their generation. Daniel Aaron's Writers on the Left is a brave, if futile, attempt to exorcise some myths about Communism and the American literary Left during the period between the world wars; myths which, despite Aaron's absorbing book, are not likely to die soon...
...Itek's Lexington lab have predicted the EDM will not only make possible vast cost savings in the engineering industries but also revolutionize computer technology. Among those who have come to inspect the EDM so far: urban developers looking for better ways to plan cities, railroaders seeking quicker ways to unsnarl traffic, aerospace engineers who hope for swifter and finer design work...
...rich and conservative holdouts rely exclusively on private care. But a growing number of Britons, 1,200,000 now as against 100,000 when NHS began, now have some private medical care as well. Some use this as a status symbol; others as a backstop to NHS, to get quicker care and more quiet and privacy...
Coach Paul Patten's club owns victories over Colgate, Yale, and Ohio University (9-0) in its last three outings, in which Kennedy allowed only three goals. With six returning lettermen and a fine flock of sophomores, Patten has been able to assemble a quicker and better defensive unit than last year's 7-12 sextet...