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With a nice flair for the appropriate statistic, the German Railway Company cheerfully went on to reveal last week that even if the public had fooled them it had still bought one billion tickets during the year. "Seventeen printing shops print most of the tickets," continued the chatty announcement, "but we have installed 1,650 ticket-printing apparatuses in our most important ticket offices which can be instantly adjusted to print any ticket required, together with any price...
...pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian priest who had protested loyalty to Jugoslavia's new regime, was severely pummeled by an unidentified assailant before boarding his train. All newspapers publishing accounts of bomb findings or of Dr. Rittig's pummeling were confiscated. Seventeen cafe proprietors were marched to jail charged with "encouraging meetings of the so-called 'Frank Party.' " Cables from Jugoslavia explained the Frank partisans as members of a secret Croat nationalist organization, plotting Croatia's restoration to Hungary...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at Harvard has voted the minor sport "H" to seventeen players and Manager J. P. Skinner ocC of the varsity soccer team...
...Seventeen minutes flat was the time it took Germany's famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley* Schacht, to read entirely through before he would sign, last week, the Charter and Statutes of Europe's new Bank for International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23 et seq.). The official text, adopted after a six-week negotiation by world potent bankers at Baden-Baden, is in English. Delegates from the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan signed without conning over a document with which all, including Dr. Schacht, were excessively familiar. That made six signatures. The seventh?Belgium's?was not affixed...
...classification runs through seventeen major classes, but is left open at both ends--an admission of the probable extension of knowledge in both directions. The significance of the classification is said to lie in the skeleton which is afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of the world's present chaotic knowledge of the systems of various kinds. All systems find a place in this synthesis--atoms, comets, and galaxies; man, radiation, and the space-time complex. When looked at in this objective way, human beings, and all associated terrestrial organisms, appear only parenthetically...