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...bell-ringing enthusiasts admit the difficulty of giving a concert which would meet the approval of Cambridge ears. Because the zvon is based on a six-tone Eastern scale, it cannot render the gentle strains of "Fair Harvard" or other melodious selections played by ordinary carillions...
...Atomic Energy, said that radiation from H-bomb tests could cause "tens of thousands" of harmful mutations in the next generation of Americans. And more recently, Thomas E. Murray, member of the AEC, declared that atmospheric contamination "could be catastrophic. A sufficiently large number of such explosions would render the earth uninhabitable to man." He went on to say that the "new power we have in hand can affect the lives of generations still unborn...
...convince these craftsmen that their work should say something, that it is not absolutely essential to be so divorced from the subject as not to give a damn about it, and that it is not necessary for a young writer to limit himself to microscopic themes, they will render a service not only to the hesitant authors but the too often yawning public. It is good to be able to say that this issue contains nothing very bad, but it would be far better to say that it contained one piece which at least tried to be good...
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee gave the nod to an abridged edition of the Ohio Senator's favorite text, the wording changed to render it ostensibly innocuous. Any similarity to previous versions, claim the resolution's advocates, is purely coincidental. If the new amendment is as innocuous as the Brickerites claim, however, it should be unnecessary. On the other hand, if the proposal is supposed to assert itself by implication, if its innocent language obscures hidden teeth, then the amendment could be dangerous as an obstruction to effective foreign dealings. In either case, explicitly superfluous or implicitly harmful...
Last week, with Israel's technical machinery at a virtual standstill and with the nation's health in peril, the government had no choice but to make a token sur render. Seizing on a compromise offer from the strikers, it agreed to give them two-thirds of their promised pay raise now, and the rest within three years. Within twelve hours, the government announced that it was also considering increases for all workers...