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...club was to be formed, and it was later-declared that the Department would take over its direction. Mr. Hamel's attempts to bring the meeting to order so that discussion of the issues could take place were frustrated, largely by the faculty representative at the meeting. Thereupon Mr. Hamel, Mr. Kerno, and eighteen others, left the meeting...
...village elders of Marsella, 6,300 feet up in Colombia's Cauca Valley, weighed the arguments and gave consent -yes, it would be a good idea to give the district's youngsters inoculations against whooping cough and diphtheria. Thereupon, the traveling "sanitary educator," Roberto Agudelo Valencia, 32, jumped into his jeep, switched on the public-address system and drove around announcing a movie in the village square...
...same meeting, Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of research for the Corning Glass Works and one of America's outstanding physicists, was installed as President of the Association for 1953. Thereupon the entire audience of scientists erupted into applance. Mather suggested that the ovation presumably stemmed from "the reaction of the scientists to the attack upon Dr. Condon's loyalty recently made by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, an-attack that was officially ignored by the council of the Association but which must have been in the minds of its members." McCarran is Chairman of the Un-American...
...Paris last week, art lovers trooped to the Galerie Royale to see something billed as "The Art Gallery of the Future." The future turned out to be electrified. As visitors grouped before each of the exhibits, an attendant pressed a button. Thereupon, a spotlight flared on and a tape-recorded voice boomed out a learned commentary...
...Jelly Belly," he concluded that he must, in self-defense, "begin eating smaller meals and doing calisthenics in my bedroom." When he failed to watch his own grooming, he was quickly pulled up short: "Once I incautiously pointed out a grease spot on a boy's shirt. He thereupon called attention to an extremely small gravy mark on my own . . . From then on I never dared appear at a troop meeting without first giving my shoes such a gloss that they could have stood sentry-go at Buckingham Palace ... I went further. I began slathering myself with after-shave...