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Bachman, who was taken a job as a ticket-taker at the Stadium, met Ambassador and Mrs. Conant before sailing west. "They asked me to give their greetings to Harvard," he said...
...Science is suffering from sterility-from an inability to beget sufficient heirs -because few people actually understand what we do ... Teen-agers in New England told a survey-taker a few years ago that they regarded the 'scientist as cold, calculating, and without social interest or moral standards-an occupation fit for "queer geniuses...
...didn't want to be working on Christmas. I decided that if I liked a position, I'd stay, but if I didn't, I'd move on." He moved on and on for the next 28 years. He got jobs as a census taker, factory worker, salesman. Once, during the Depression, he worked his way around South America on the tug Mira Flores. A storm disabled the boat, and "we lived off flying fish for four or five days. Caught them, bit off the heads and ate the rest...
Councillor Charles Watson has asked the Council to hire an official U.S. census taker to check the new city figures...
...Poll-Taker Blizzard found that the greatest single change in the ministry is caused by "the rapid shift that is being made from the life of the village and the countryside to the urbanized mass society." More than eight of the questionnaire's eleven pages were designed to draw out a ministerial self-portrait. From them Dr. Blizzard found that the ministers are asking themselves such questions...