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...weeks ago, the dispute over the Sudan was a textbook example of unprofitable diplomacy. All parties had crawled far out on separate limbs. The British had 1) all but pushed the Egyptians out of the million square miles of Sudan, despite the continuing fiction of a condominium and 2) firmly promised the 8,000,000 Sudanese the right of self-determination. The Egyptians had 1) named King Farouk Sovereign of the Sudan and 2) let it be known that they considered the pro-Independence party in Sudan (the Umma) a collection of dogs and British lickspittles. For the Sudanese, Umma...
...today calls the legend entirely untrue, but admits that "perhaps it is symbolic," Eighteen years later he feels that he has succeeded in shutting off chemistry in a small, little used corner of his mind. True, there are occasional twinges when he reads chemical journals or revises his standard textbook on the subject, but he has done no actual research since becoming president. He gives infrequent but spectacular demonstrations in Natural Science courses, but as he says "since 1933 I can't claim to have advanced the barriers of science one millimeter...
Conant taught the basic course in organic chemistry--Chemistry 20 today--and wrote a textbook on the subject. Most of his energy, however, was expended on research. Undergraduate legend today has it that he was on the verge of reproducing photosynthesis in the laboratory when he was elected president. This is far from accurate. Conant explains his part in the work of photosynthesis by saying. "Like a lot of other chemists I was trying to determine the exact composition of chlorophyll. As it turned out, my ideas on the subject in 1932 were no more correct than many other suppositions...
...Chambers' book Witness [TIME, May 26]. There are so many Americans sunk in the depths of lethargy and indifference that a great number of our youth will probably never know who Chambers is or what Communism is, until it is too late. Witness should be used as a textbook in every one of our nation's high schools and junior colleges...
...group plans to examine the textbook treatment of history in an attempt to correct distortion growing out of national points of view. Britain, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Greece, and Norway also sent men to the meeting. German and United States books will be examined and criticized...