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...cave heaped high with jew els. The deeper they looked the more treasure they saw - and the cave went on for ever. What the scientists had found, they told one another with growing excitement, was the modern counterpart of the Philosophers' Stone, which medieval alchemists searched for in vain as the tool to transmute gold from base metals. The atom has turned the medieval dream into 20th century reality. Modern atomic science can actually transmute metals -plutonium is a transmuted metal, and gold could be made from other elements if it were worth the expense and effort...
...white dominance disagreed with what he was doing to South Africa's legal and political traditions. The official opposition, and the businessmen, and the English-language newspapers, and many of the Afrikaans-speaking professors of Stellenbosch University, spoke out even though they knew that their protests were in vain. Last week rose the wrath of two other groups-the white women and the natives...
...vain did Scelba's supporters argue that the Republicans' five votes were not essential to Scelba's majority. Shortly after 9 o'clock in the evening, Fanfani told Scelba formally that "with deep regret" the executive committee had decided not to support him. Next morning, smiling determinedly, Mario Scelba submitted his resignation to President Gronchi. His chief regret, said Scelba mildly, was that he had been overthrown not by parliamentary votes but by party maneuvering...
Fatima's nephew was executed for his trouble, but his sacrifice was not in vain...
...depends on refusing to become a second-string player on either side? Nehru warned his countrymen before leaving home: "I'm not going to negotiate between any blocs on any issue, nor am I going to intervene in any issues." But it would have taken a man less vain than Nehru to resist the Soviet welcome, the grandest given to any foreigner within memory...