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...narrative proceeds with the leaping congruity of dreams. Gabriel Syme, a detective, is under orders to infiltrate a conspiracy to destroy society. He penetrates the Central Anarchist Council to find six other members, identified only as days of the week. Syme assumes the remaining role of Thursday. After a series of painful pursuits and duels, he learns the identity of five colleagues: they are all Scotland Yard detectives in disguise. And Sunday? It is his identity that provides the book's philosophical richness and tension...
Rabbi Daniel B. Syme New York City...
...techniques are as varied as the scientific imagination. Distillation by the heat of the sun seems satisfactory on the Greek island of Syme, but it requires too much space and sunshine to be practical almost anywhere else. Though not economical for seawater conversion, electrodialysis, in which electrically charged cellulose-acetate membranes attract the impurities, is being used to convert less salty but brackish waters. Still another method involves freezing. As a youth in Siberia, Alexander Zarchin, an Israeli engineer, became fascinated by the fact that he could drink melted water from the ice of salty seas. In freezing, he learned...
...some sector of the Federal Government. But the selection committee has made exceptions to include a few foreign paintings of U.S. subjects and U.S. paintings of foreign subjects. The James McNeill Whistler oil of London's waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter John Syme's oil of John James Audubon was purchased because it is a fine portrait. An early acquisition was a pencil-and-sepia drawing, The Apotheosis of Franklin, by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard...
...ascetic. Says one former executive, ruefully recalling his $18-a-week expense allowance: "The place is run like a pawnshop." The sprawling B.H.P. shop is presently managed by a triumvirate that prefers fishing to nightclubbing and warily shies away from public notice. The ruling trio: courtly Chairman Colin Y. Syme, 59. a Melbourne lawyer; Managing Director Norman E. Jones, 58, a quiet chemist and metallurgist; and impatient Ian M. McLennan, 52, chief general manager, who joined B.H.P. in 1933 in a cadet engineer's "pick-and-shovel" job. Travelling tirelessly, Syme, Jones and McLennan leave so little authority...