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Civil Rights. Though Southern Senators have bottled up legislation for a month in James 0. Eastland's Judiciary Committee, a break is in sight. Last week Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland delivered a G.O.P. ultimatum: no out-of-town trips for judiciary members until civil rights reaches the Senate floor. Reacting hastily, the Democratic leadership promised to report out the measure by May 20. Prognosis: after passage in the House and a last-stand Southern filibuster in the Senate, civil rights will be passed this session...
...Most complex of the additional senses, with more paraphernalia in the brain than even the sense of sight, is No. 12, proprioception or position sense. Test it thus: "Close your eyes and slowly lift your arm. Although you are able to feel no touch sensation, still you can sense your arm's changing position in relation to the rest of your body...
Like the gyrocompass, the gyroscopic ship stabilizer and the Mark 14 antiaircraft gun sight (developed by Dr. Draper and his associates at M.I.T. in 1941), Inertial Guidance is based on the familiar principle that keeps a child's gyroscopic top from falling: a rapidly spinning wheel will resist forces working to twist it from the plane in which it is revolving. A gyroscope sufficiently free of outside disturbances-e.g., friction-will maintain an unvarying spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried...
...American girls. The trio's relationship comes to a head when Lexy decides to make peace with lis father, and invites Josh to join Miri and himself for a summer stay at the family's New York country place. There Josh sees a half-enthralling, half-appalling sight, a patriarch in full possession of his powers, ordering women and children about as if that were the way man was meant to live. Lexy's father confides to [osh his views of American family mores: 'These parents, they live crazy, they divorce, they talk about being nice...
...such cases the first sign of its onset is the loss of side vision. Said Dr. Horsley: "The unsuspecting victim is sometimes almost completely blind before he realizes his visual loss. It is heartbreaking to have to tell these patients that they will never be able to regain the sight they have lost, and may even lose what little vision they have left because treatment has been instituted so late...