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Dropping the Pilot. When military soothsayers try to look into the future, they confess to considerable bewilderment. None can now predict how the new weapons will react upon one another and upon older weapons. Another unknown quantity is their cost, which is sure to be high. But many advantages are gained by dispensing with the human crewmen, who need space, visibility, heating and cooling, oxygen and pressurizing apparatus. And the crew of the modern bomber is an expensive item itself; it takes money and time to train its members...
When he was asked how MacArthur might react to a presidential draft, Whitney replied: "The general told me that if any such question was raised he would advise the questioner to go home and read the Bible. Especially the chapter on St. Thomas . . . the part pertaining to doubting Thomas...
From this hypothesis, the experts will consider how such a situation would affect the American economy. How the normal pricing system would react, what would happen to wages, and the possible development of full-scale socialism will be considered...
...Kahn (now at Ann Arbor on the faculty of the University of Michigan) has evolved. Some of the body's cells are constantly being destroyed, and in the process part of their lipid (fat-like) content passes into the blood. The system then automatically develops antibodies which react mysteriously with the dead-cell lipids. In the test tube, these antibodies react, in what Kahn holds to be a definite and ascertainable pattern, with the fatty stuff from beef heart...
...their personal problems, and made it a rule (which he still follows) to insure their privacy, by opening his own mail every morning. He avoided church politics like the plague, and his solid middle ground on all issues often seems to him like a kind of orneryness. "I always react against my environ ment," he says. "When I'm with an extreme Protestant, I tend to be more Catholic than normally; when I'm talking to an Anglo-Catholic, I begin to sound like a Protestant...