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Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, offers an interesting sidelight on the Russian Research story. "The Post story--"Lyons says, "all their stories on the Harvard work for the Air Force, come out of the record of hearings held in Washington last June or July. It comes out of the record of the Senate Appropriations Committee hearings on the armed forces appropriations bill, HR 5969. The Post reporter has got up to page 1441 in the record, where Trenor Gardner, special assistant to the Air Secretary for research and development expressed to Senator Ferguson dissatisfaction "with both...
Comparative scores provides us with an interesting sidelight. By gaining a nine-point edge over Davidson, the Crimson becomes the superior of top-ranking Michigan State by 40 points, and of Notre Dame...
TIME's reporter on Rio's favelas [TIME, March 31] missed an interesting sidelight for U.S. readers. If he ... visited "the human anthills," he must have passed St. Francis Friary . . . where live the U.S. Conventual Franciscans whose parish includes these notorious shantytowns. Two of these priests had been working singlehandedly among the favelados long before Dr. Guilherme Ribeiro Romano appeared on the scene . . . Helped by folks back home, these young Franciscans built and have maintained medical clinics and social centers, schools and chapels on Kerosene, Escondidinho and São Carlos Hills. [One] . . . piped water up the hill...
...amusing sidelight to a recent survey of TIME readers is this incidental intelligence about your interests and possessions. Most of you, unsurprisingly, are enthusiastic pet owners-especially of dogs and cats. But, surprisingly, you also say your households include alligators, ants, lovebirds, opossums, lambs, lizards, palomino horses, peacocks, salamanders and snakes. Far & away the most popular dogs are cocker spaniels with collies, shepherds and setters next in line. One dog enthusiast, who owns 13 Afghans, four Doberman pinschers, two salukis, a St. Bernard and a miniature poodle, says their upkeep costs him a whacking...
Interesting sidelight: one of the founders of the N.C.C.J. 22 years ago, Newton D. Baker, was a charter subscriber to TIME...