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...Lewis and Clark" parallel is not the most important aspect of this bit of writing. The salient feature is rather that Mr. Clark, who spends his days experimenting in Jefferson Laboratory--stronghold of realism--can so banish his work from mind in his leisure as to write fairy tales. Many eminent scientists here have become so ensnared in their research problems that any whimsical relaxation is out of the question. Mr. Clark, however, has successfully bridged the gap between physics and fantasy. In providing a pleasant story for children, he has also shown embattled physicists a method of useful relaxation...
...Jebusites, Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Persians, Arabs, Turks and British, fell again last week. It was the latest of a long list of occupations of Jerusalem since the time that King David's powerful Hebrew forces, gaining an entrance through the city's waterworks, took the Jebusite stronghold in the Eleventh Century...
...Hradcany Castle, ancient stronghold on the heights of Prague, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes faced the crisis of his career. Fortnight ago the "maximum concessions" which the Czechoslovak Government believed it possible to make to Sudeten Germans without shattering its own sovereignty were offered in Premier Milan Hodza's "Plan No. 3," which Hitler promptly had the Sudetens turn down. The President then took over from the Premier, drafted and released...
...merely saying ... 'If you be lieve in the Administration, do not send these men back.' ... I know the President. . . . Adulation has not made him arrogant, defeat has not made him timid. What we have to decide is whether ... we want to abdicate the stronghold of Democracy or to fight for it. And I think we, too, have 'only just begun to fight...
...rich-voiced, grey-haired Methodist minister who seldom mounts a pulpit, Miss Harkness teaches philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, is rated a top-notcher among U. S. theologians. Last week, calling the church "the last stronghold of male dominance," she told a Methodist Leadership School at Lake Junaluska, N. C.: "The fact that women frequently put their energies into channels which lie outside the church is often deplored by men who have the interests of the church at heart. . . . These other agencies offer women an opportunity for leadership, for creative expression . . . and in turn a recognition which they...