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Britain, on the threshold of 1951's winter, must cope with a mounting and perilous trade deficit. Her money has lost a quarter of its purchasing power in six years. She is taxed to the hilt. Prices have inflated faster than pay packets, and food this summer was 40% more expensive than in 1947. Dissatisfaction with nationalization and with controls is rife...
...attitude toward the church? The Dominican priest who was her spiritual adviser is sure that, had she lived, she would have accepted baptism. Simone Weil doubted it. A brilliant intellectual who found God after wading through agnosticism and Marxism, she thought her mission was to remain "on the threshold" of the church, a bridge between believers and unbelievers...
Almost 300 men cross the Gold Coast's threshold on a busy day, and the staff knows everyone by name; among them are the sons of some of Benny's early customers...
...laboratory of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion last week, young (28) Dr. Louis F. Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow...
...temple of science. He had been abused for thinking that science and society were not dynamically interrelated, and then ridiculed for supposing that the connection had any logic whatsoever. A third suggestion then rudely imposed itself--that society might effect science. It was clear that the ultimate threshold of truth, the science of the meaning of science, was not to be crossed that night...