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Sentimentalists often mourn for captive eagles, prevented by cruel man from soaring into the sky. But eagles, says Dr. Hediger, do not really like to fly long distances, and never do so except when forced by hunger. If grounded in a cage and fed regularly, they live to a ripe old age, producing regular crops of eaglets...
Stalin . . . and all his international henchmen fanatically believe that "the capitalist system as a whole is already ripe for revolution." They fanatically believe, as Lenin proved, that "the importance of war as a midwife of Revolution can scarcely be exaggerated...
...must be sensitive to the dangers that lurk in any choice. But choose we must, and we shall be silly dupes if we forget that again and again in the past thirty years, just such preparations in other countries have aided to supplant existing governments, when the time was ripe...
...Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment, retail business, steel, and white-collar occupations . . . General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52-if the time is ripe, his wife approves, the stars favor him, the Democrats fold up, and the Republicans give him the nomination...
Died. Charles S. Howard, 73, California Buick distributor and race horse owner-in Hillsborough, Calif. In 1935 Howard paid $7,500 for a homely, wobbly-kneed three-year-old bay named Seabiscuit; at the ripe old age of seven, Seabiscuit came out of retirement to win the "Hundred Grand Santa Anita Handicap...