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Second-grade pupils were learning a poem which summed up much of Western Germany's mood: "Speckled autumn moves through the country with long steps and mighty hand. It bends the slender trees and it rustles the stout ones. Then the ripe apples and pears and apricots come tumbling down. The boys and girls shout: 'Hurrah, Uncle Autumn is here...
...Russia, slipped out from under FBI surveillance in 1945, is now believed to be in the U.S.S.R. The committee linked Adams with two U.S. scientists who had worked on secret atomic projects. One was Clarence Francis Hiskey, 36, now a chemistry professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The other was slender John H. Chapin, 35, now a brewery chemist...
...five governors of the British Broadcasting Corp., and one of Britain's most influential journalists. Last week she was introduced to the U.S. reading public with the publication of her latest book-her first in the U.S.-entitled The West at Bay (Norton; $3.50). Young Miss Ward, a slender, attractive woman who once wanted to become an opera singer, has a great deal to say to the U.S. Her book is an intelligent guide to the world...
Ferdinand's chance came in 1887. Stefan Stambolov, Bulgaria's anti-Russian, anti-Turkish "Bismarck," looking around for a new prince, settled on Clementine's Ferdinand. Subsequently, a contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors...
This theory turned out to be true. The doctors proved it conclusively by exposing cut nerve ends of Rhesus monkeys to the virus of human polio. They then separated the slender neurotubules a little way up the nerve and examined them under the electron microscope. Some of them were full of tiny round specks not present in healthy nerves. By extracting the nerve samples at different times, the doctors proved that the particles crept slowly up the nerve from the point of entry. They moved about 2 mm. (1/12 inch) an hour-roughly the rate that polio infection is known...