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...groups of the same races living under these very same climates."-The final answer to the menace of tuberculosis must go far beyond treatment of current cases, say Dubos & wife. It is a way of life: "Cleanliness of body and habits, a room of one's own where sunlight and fresh air enter freely, physical and mental rest . . . diets ... to meet the unperverted demands of the body." The authors admit that there is nothing new in this prescription. But. they say, the world needs a new spirit of evangelism to spread this gospel and make it work. "It will...
...Apostle raised himself a little, supported by imperial hands. How bright the sunlight was, on the warm grey stones, on the ripe Roman skins, on vermilion and lavender and blue and ermine and green and gold, on the indecent grotesque blackness of two blotches, on apostolic whiteness and the rose of blood." After Hadrian, Rolfe managed to write a vivid small novel, Don Tarquinio, but then financial troubles closed him round...
...Germany, Von Braun fired a V-2 on a clear day 15 minutes after the sun had set. The stars were already coming out, and as the great rocket climbed upward, the flame of its exhaust diminished to a shining pinpoint and disappeared. Then the rocket broke into the sunlight above the shadow of the earth and gleamed, brilliantly visible, against the darkening sky. He watched it through its full course, like a bright, climbing star, and followed it down again into the shadow...
Even a small satellite could be made to shine at dusk. It could inflate a plastic balloon which would gleam as brightly in the sunlight as a first-magnitude star. This "American star," rising in the west, should make a powerful impression on the peoples of Asia...
...imaginative efforts to make the planets sound attractive, scientists consider earth's neighborhood rather slummy. But the space planners are optimistic. Colonists on the airless moon, they say. could erect Plexiglas domes and fill them with any atmosphere they liked. They could grow bumper crops in the unfailing sunlight, could extract metals and oxygen from the rocks. Arthur C. Clarke in The Explora, tion of Space argues that man might thrive under such conditions better than he does on earth...