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Scientists, who go after everything with a fine-tooth comb, are always taking the fun out of mythology. Now they are currying the Golden Fleece. According to Greek legend, the fleece first belonged to a ram provided by the god Hermes to help two children, Helle and Phryxus, dodge an untrustworthy stepmother. The ram took off through the air with the children on its back. Helle fell off and was drowned (hence the Hellespont, now the Dardanelles), but Phryxus reached the eastern shore of the Black Sea. He ungratefully sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave its fleece...
...slushy winter morning a good driver, as he speeds past, can hit as many as a dozen fist-flourishing bystanders with the spray from his wheels. Years of diving through elbowing passengers to collect the 10? fares has given many a conductor the temperament of a yegg; most ram their nickel-plated, jingling coin-collectors at the entering passenger's belly like a gunman wielding...
Last week the President also: ¶ Followed the progress of new Treasury Minister Ramón Beteta's talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Mexico reportedly wants $400 million for more industrialization...
...total 5,000,000 votes. In Argentina, their 120,000-strong party recently sent its overalled trade-union leaders back to the factories to outdo Perón at his own game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they have three ministers in the new Cabinet. But in corrupt, revolution-weary Mexico the Commies, with a core of 9,000, have lost considerably in influence and Government patronage. These were...
...important right wing leader, who declined to be quoted by name, told reporters that left wing extremists were forced to accept the strong Anti-Communist language by a threat to ram it down their throats" on the convention floor this week...