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Hubble's discovery threw top-level science into confused arguments which are still raging. For various reasons (besides "common sense"), the idea of an exploding universe gave sober scientists goose-pimples. But every attempt to reason the theory away raised even more serious problems. Since Hubble had seen so much with the 100-inch telescope (whose range is 500 million light-years), the astronomers simply had to see still farther...
...State Department's "Voice of America" began broadcasting the documents to the world, including Russia. It was clearly propaganda, but propaganda with the virtue of sober truth...
...final, scurrying hours before adjournment, President Harry Truman last week sent to Congress his specifications for restoring peace & prosperity to Western Europe under the European Recovery Program. It was a momentous document. In 9,000 sober, deliberate words, the President asked the U.S. to pit its full economic strength against the destruction of war and the disruptive forces of aggressive Communism...
Raised Eyebrows. Once aired in Britain, these black realities stirred up more criticism of Rank. The sober Manchester Guardian was shocked that Rank's privately owned G.C.F. "could make a heavy loss without any general shareholder of the public companies . . . knowing anything about it." Repeating the charge of Brendan Bracken's Financial Times that in taking over G.C.F., Odeon was getting a pig in a poke, the News Chronicle tartly observed that the pig was "a lanky beast of decidedly questionable value...
Bogotá's sober, influential El Tiempo spoke the Colombian mind: "Never has the country been in such a trance, and it is all due to the impact of the conference. We hope that March won't find us as January was going to catch...