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...during those long introspective sessions over cold tea at the Bick. The theory went like this: that Harvard was an alien place, staffed with immobile minds, sealed with several centuries of strict tradition, garlanded with unalterable standards, and cast in a peculiarly rigid social structure. In short, the Cambridge strata were well-rutted and different. Morris as one of the eager young men from elsewhere appeared in such a society and became immediately, and noticeably, uncomfortable...
...directive of the Chinese Communist Party Tibetan Working Committee proclaiming the "positive significance of the Central Committee's policy of not implementing the democratic reform in Tibet within six years." Said the Red statement plaintively: ''Facts have proved that only a few of the upper-strata personages support the reform, while the majority still harbor varying degrees of doubt and are actually against it; and that, although a small portion of the masses enthusiastically demand reform, the large portion of the masses still lack enthusiasm." Nine-tenths of the Red cadres (but not the Red troops) sent...
...Standard's Canadian subsidiary, tried to tap Great Slave's potential with a test well at Windy Point on the western tip of the huge lake far up in Canada's frozen Northwest Territories. The area was littered with natural oil seeps oozing from a rock strata identified as Devonian limestone. But as so often happens when oil-bearing strata touch the surface, the well proved a dud. Disappointed oilmen all but gave up on the formation's outcropping at Great Slave until last fall, when Phillips and Home Oil geologists decided that Imperial had tried...
Bright Future. Sinclair Oil Corp. is also experimenting, trying a method of drilling holes into shale beds, fracturing the strata by driving in high-pressure water, then using fuel-oil fires to distill out the shale oil. Though the oil recovery may not be high, the Sinclair idea would save mining machinery, possibly produce lighter oil for the pipelines. In Denver, the Oil Shale Corp. has a small new pilot plant designed to test the Swedish Aspeco retort process; this distills out the oil by whirling crushed shale mixed with superheated porcelain and aluminum balls in a rotating drum, also...
Delayed Degree. When Sigmund was four, the family moved to Vienna. A bookworm, he graduated from high school summa cum laude at 17. It was then the fashion in polite strata of most European society to lock sex in a darkened bedroom and pretend that otherwise (except for haut-monde libertines and the licentious "lower classes") it did not exist. For whatever inner need, the adolescent Freud accepted this viewpoint, once even warned his sister Anna off Balzac and Dumas...