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...Thirteen days later the Vance docked at New York, a ship of sickness and tragedy. Babies were ill, their mothers panic-stricken, and with reason. Within 36 hours, four infants died at the Army's Fort Hamilton Station Hospital. In the next four days two more had died. (Still another, who had been on the Brazil, a transport which arrived the day before the Vance, died from apparently the same ailment...
...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...
...World Or None" jolts into sharp focus the problem created by the release of atomic energy. The 79-page report leaves no question as to the gravity of the problem and the need for decisive and immediate action toward its solution. And the authors--Walter Lippmann, General Arnold, and thirteen top-ranking scientists--conclude that the only way to this solution lies in a sovereign world organization designed to eradicate both the right and the possibility of waging...
...drama of the local situation must not be minimized because of the smaller stage. Though there are many extenuating circumstances, Harvard finds itself in 1946 at the same cross-roads that provided an opportunity for a new President to strike out in a new direction in 1933. Thirteen years ago it was felt that Conant's ideas of "social mobility," implemented by the National Scholarships, would give the University a greater cross-section of the nation's promising young men. It has achieved this in a geographical sense but financial balance in the undergraduate body has not been given...
...circumstances of the past thirteen years all point to the fact that this unmarked slate is not the result of lack of direction from Massachusetts Hall. Thirteen years is only a fraction of the time required by the slow maturing process of a Harvard administration. Five of those years were war years; the chief policy-maker was in the active service of his country. To expect any great change in the workings of the University after only eight years of normal educational activity is to demand precocity of the administration, and precocity is traditionally suspect at Harvard. Whatever evidence there...