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...astronomy he explains as "the satisfying your curiosity, the wanting to know," and at Canberra he will again be seeking knowledge in "the most interesting parts of the sky," for some of the more complex aspects of the Milky Way are only visible in that hemisphere. Much of the thrust of his earlier work had been on the galactic structure and dynamics of the southern Milky...
...biocontrol-turning men into robots [TIME, Oct. 15]-as expounded by Engineer Curtiss Schafer is the most chilling scientific vision in many a year. For man to be enslaved by electrical processes, his spirit and genius and upward thrust mechanically coerced and molded to the will of a malignant Grand Inquisitor-this is the final madness...
...favor the establishment of a national home" for Jews in Palestine. At first, in the mandated territory of Palestine that the League of Nations assigned to Britain, Arabs outnumbered Jews seven to one (668,200 to 83,790), a statistic that underlies the Arab assertion that the Western world thrust Israel upon them...
Thus, on the eve of the presidential election of 1956, history suddenly thrust upon Dwight D. Eisenhower one of the great tests of his life...
...penetrated the Kremlin last week from out of satellite-land was suspiciously like just such a whistle. Communism's leaders watched their authority flouted, their names assailed, their puppets overthrown, their flags torn down, their soldiers shooting down workers. In a few short days, these unpleasant truths were thrust upon the Soviet high command...