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...with Brown University; in Woolsey Hall there was a concert by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Elsewhere on the campus there were three other guest orators, including Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who drew a full house at Yale Divinity School. But the opposition hardly fazed Novelist Ayn Rand, 55 (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged}, who considers herself the "most creative" philosopher alive today...
...listeners made the biggest audience ever drawn by Challenge, a bustling undergraduate group that aims to tingle Yalemen- with prickly ideas. Polemicist Rand delivered as advertised...
...want me to name in one sentence what is wrong with the modern world," began Russian-born Author Rand in her still noticeable accent, "I will say that never before has the world been clamoring so desperately for answers to crucial problems-and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the belief that no answers are possible." To paraphrase the Bible, the modern attitude is: "Forgive me, Father, for I know not what I'm doing-and please don't tell...
...miles above the pole, the air is warmer in winter ( - 38° C.) than in summer ( - 100° C.). In fact, the pole's winter air at this altitude is warmer than that over New Mexico in midsummer (75° C.). Last week Dr. Will Kellogg of Rand Corp. told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Geophysical Union that this paradoxical warmth comes from the recombination of broken oxygen molecules...
...Sperry Rand...