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...getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said he: "I ain't afraid of Pittsburgh . . . he leaves too many edgers. And Cleveland has a wart on his thumb, or sumphin', and can't make...
Viruses are the smallest known disease-producing organisms: the biggest of them is less than one-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Biologists once wondered whether a virus was a living organism or just an overgrown, active protein molecule. The dispute is still not entirely settled, but the electron microscope shows that many of them look and act like living things. At a recent American Medical Association symposium, leading U.S. virologists described an amazing variety of viruses, ranging from types that attack only bacteria to those that infect...
...centuries the Church of England has been tied, in one way or another, to the British state. The King, as titular head of the Church, still nominally appoints bishops and deans; Parliament must pass on the smallest change in the Book of Common Prayer; ecclesiastical court cases may be appealed to civil courts. Such a state of affairs was once natural enough. But many a modern Englishman now asks: is it suitable in a modern socialist state...
...basic, underlying, never-varying tradition of [our] republic is insistence upon . . . the worth of the individual. . . . It seems true in society, as in nature, that the greatest energy is created by releasing the power of the smallest unit. In one case, the individual; in the other case, the atom...
Died. Vance Smith, 31, whose 34-inch height prompted him to claim the title "America's Smallest Man" at the New York World's Fair and many a sideshow in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart attack; in New Albany...