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Ottawa's bureaucracy was not amused last week when a 15-year-old schoolboy satirized Canada's red-taped National Selective Service (the Dominion's version of the War Manpower Commission). Donald Sim, son of a Government official, wrote that he visited Selective Service headquarters in Ottawa and told a functionary...
...fastest schoolboy in the nation won his 40th straight race last week. For the third year in a row he won both the 100-and 220-yd. dashes in the Texas State meet. Last year he ran 100 yards just one-tenth of a second slower than the world record...
...Macmillan; $1), Christian Behaviour is a collection of Author Lewis' BBC talks. The Case for Christianity explained why he believes Christianity is true. Christian Behaviour explains what a Christian must do to make religion ring true in his life. Lewis' main point: morals are not like the schoolboy's definition of God-"The sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it." Morals, says Lewis, "are directions for running the human machine...
...Army General Markian Popov, the captor of Karachev. The Red Command regards this tall, thin, long-necked man with a schoolboy's face as one of the most daring of its young generals; it has jumped him two grades since April. A tank expert, he won his spurs fighting the Japanese in 1939. Some two years later his columns decimated the Italian Army in the Don loop, continued to race into the Ukraine until they bogged down in the mud and ran out of fuel. The Red Command forgave him. When the hour struck for the summer offensive, Popov...
Projection from a Needle. Walker's discovery is an ingenious projection of a phenomenon familiar to every schoolboy: a dry needle laid on water will float because of the water's surface tension. Surface tension is what makes water stick to the sides of a glass, and if a column of glass is fine enough, water will actually climb up its sides. Suppose, reasoned Walker, this "wetting" principle were applied to a porous membrane: would water filling the pores have enough surface (or "interfacial") tension to block other liquids while letting water through...