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...unprecedented increase in the er of nominees," Sir Hugh Taylor, dent of the Foundation said, "has ed us, after the keenest of competi- to recruit young people who possess , who might never have thought of sional careers...
...moment Dwight Eisenhower strode into the Congres sional Room of Washington's Statler Hotel last week, the members of the Republican National Committee could sense the change in him. When it came to political meetings, Ike had always been a notorious foot-dragger. This time, ready and willing to address the committee's mid-term session, he was obviously a man with a message. Moments later, he took the rostrum to deliver a dart-sharp speech calling for a complete overhaul and rejuvenation of the Republican Party, from precinct captain to panjandrum...
...there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on." ¶Present-day physicists, Einstein believes, are so busy gathering facts about the innards of atoms that they have no time for the great, round, four-dimen sional universe. He lists the main steps toward understanding the universe. First (after Newton's useful but insufficient Laws of Motion) came Maxwell's work on electromagnetic fields: the effect that electrical charges have upon space. Then Einstein himself, with his Theory of Relativity, explained gravitational fields: the effect that...
...Byrnes's reputation is that of a skillful compromiser, able to compel agreement by patience, charm of manner and an elastic mind. He has the realism-and sometimes the cynicism-of the profes sional politician. All of the evidence is that he is essentially conservative, a gradualist in all his thinking. On one major point Secretary Byrnes will certainly agree with President Truman: U.S. policy will be much more American than Anglo-American. Jimmy Byrnes will be with the President in any strong and specific assertion of U.S. rights and interests...
There is solace for the duller type of scholar, together with the occa- sional dissipater of today in Professor Morison's outline, moreover. Things were as bad as they are right now at least as long ago as the American Revolution. I quote Professor Morison: (on the Class...