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...story barely hinted at the effect of this result. But doubling the size of the known universe the expansion is doubled. Now by computing backwards, the age of the universe becomes about six billion year, somewhat more in line with geological results from radioactivity of rocks in the Laurentian Shield...
Last week, in a ceremony which by tradition includes an honor guard of silk-uniformed soldiers, each carrying two swords and a shield of buffalo hide, Sir Jigme's 24-year-old son, Jigme Dorji, was installed as the third Gyalpo of Thunder-dragon. Two visitors-the eldest son of the Maharaja of neighboring Sikkim and an Indian political agent-were invited over the mountains to see the show. They were the only outsiders present...
Presently, Lodge has reached the point where his record and opinions are a menace to the GOP's neanderthal leaders, but are not sufficiently distinguished, like Vandenberg's were, to shield him from an intra-party vendetta. If, however, Eisenhower (whose ideas on foreign policy are, after all, closer to Lodge's than to Taft's) wins the presidency, Lodge will presumably become his agent in the Senate. With the political strength of a president behind him, the Massachusetts Senator would undoubtedly vitiate, if not destroy, Taft's control over Republican foreign policy...
...sources of this cataclysm go back far beyond the Truman era to the early days of the New Deal. First in NRA and later in the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the New Deal provided the shield for a new labor organizing drive. And it provided a mass of new federal machinery to regulate employer-union relationships...
...Navy does not know yet how loud afterburners will get or what will have to be done to shield men from the effects of their shattering sound. It hopes that the temporary deafness that jets often cause will not turn into permanent afterburner deafness. Meanwhile, as it studies the problem theoretically, it is working on a protective helmet, proof not against bullets but sound...