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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fishing. He drove his car out to the Moscow Sea (an artificial lake near the capital) without notifying his MVD guards, who shadowed him everywhere he went. He persuaded the head of a-small fishery to take him out on the lake in the only rowboat in sight. Smith assumed that the guards, who had of course followed him, would wait at the shore. But he had underestimated "the Oriental concept .of hospitality" which he encountered in Russia. Related Smith last week in My Three Years in Moscow, which is running serially in the New York Times and the Satevepost...
...sometimes brutal authority, the two giants of the midlands stood the test. As the season progressed, two less obvious candidates-Army in the East and California in the Far West-rose to join them as the big four of college football. Last week, with season's end in sight, the big four marshaled their manpower against a common enemy: overconfidence...
Stimulated Sight. Scientists have long known that the eyes and the ears are not the actual instruments of sight and hearing, but highly selective transmission stations which pick up light and sound waves, translate them into electrical impulses, and carry them to the visual and auditory areas of the brain. In the brain, the impulses are finally translated into the sensations that are recognized as anything from a Grandma Moses painting to the radio-chant of the tobacco auctioneer. Most blindness or deafness and many kinds of paralysis are caused by the failure of the transmission station-the eyes...
Venus' husband, Vulcan, was a good guy and the god of fire besides, but he was so jealous he couldn't stand to have her out of his sight; his idea of fun for his lovely bride was to have her hang around his forge while he pounded out odd jobs. Anyone but a god would have known that a Venus was bound...
...Covenant is a steaming caldron of 19th Century medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women, the outraged conservatism of doctors who bitterly resisted aseptic surgery, the heartbreak of seeing a lifesaving discovery rejected...