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Stalin's henchmen made many attempts to seize or destroy the papers. One of their most spectacular--and successful--sallies occurred in November, 1936. At that time Trotsky was under house arrest in Norway, but many of the papers were hidden in a Paris apartment, supposedly out of the reach of Stalin. Nevertheless, agents of the G.P.U. (Russia's secret police at that time) located the apartment, perhaps with the aid of an agent provacateur, and they occupied the adjacent room. Then, with a torch, they cut through the intervening wall and made off with the papers...
...while all humans apply the same basic code, they can reach dramatically individual and divergent conclusions. The so-called primitive mind, for one example, abhors change. It builds societies designed to repeal history: "What primitive man seeks above all is not truth but coherence; not the scientific distinction between true and false but a vision of the world that will satisfy his soul...
...Slightly Left." Unlike most A.M.A. officers, who traditionally reach their posts by persistent politicking from the county level on up, Dr. Wilbur is well known for his contributions to medical practice. Long associated with the Mayo Clinic and Stanford's School of Medicine, he is rated one of the top internists in Northern California, has been president of the American Gastroenterological Association and of the American College of Physicians. He has also exerted a notably moderating influence on doctors' attitudes in his state as editor of California Medicine since 1946. A lifetime Republican, like his father and physician...
Although the U.S. Supreme Court has clearly ruled that separate school systems for whites and Negroes are unconstitutional, de facto segregation resulting from residential patterns has until now seemed beyond reach of the courts. Last week Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that de facto segregation is just as unlawful as the kind imposed on Negroes by Southern legislatures...
...nymph. In one sequence, she is Paulette, grieving as she leads her husband's funeral cortege to the cemetery. Comforting her is Peter Sellers, who tries to cut a path through the widow's weeds by promising her the world. At last Paulette succumbs. When the mourners reach a fork in the road, she and Sellers peel off to the left as the scandalized funeral procession proceeds to the right...