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...this reference system, or memory, is one of the most important tools of man's intelligence. Long before the development of molecular biology, Marcel Proust pondered the mystery of memory in Remembrance of Things Past. About a man's own past, he wrote that "it is a labor in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere beyond the reach of the intellect." In Swann's Way, it was a tea-soaked petite madeleine that touched off the hero's long-forgotten childhood memories. In the scientific world...
Jarring's calculated inactivity may be in vain. As far as he is concerned, Israel must make the next move by indicating its willingness to withdraw from occupied territories. Israel has no intention of withdrawing behind any frontiers that it does not consider safe. When Foreign Minister Abba Eban visited Washington two weeks ago, in fact, he told 40 Senators that alternative proposals suggested by Secretary of State William Rogers, including an international peace-keeping force, were not adequate substitutes for secure borders...
...minutes of a crime, and increasingly low there after, speed is of the essence. Just as important, you have to apply some intelligence to the question of where a robber would be likely to flee. Even with speed and intelligence, the overwhelming majority of these searches will be in vain, and so there may be a tendency after a while to regard your role as that of a report-taker and nothing more...
After a hundred or more vain searches in my first year as a policeman (I made my share of arrests, but none on flash lookouts), I ran into two Marines last month who had just been robbed, and began to question them. They eventually came up with a mediocre description of two of the subjects who had robbed them, and a first-rate description of the third. So I went off with another officer who, like myself, was riding a motor scooter, and cruised the area. And about fifteen minutes later, after searching up and down several likely streets...
Last week, the battle lost. Morris wrote his resignation and mailed it to Cowles in Minneapolis. He heard of its acceptance thirdhand-from staffers who had been told by Blair, who had been informed by Cowles. Morris called Cowles to protest, but in vain. Then, in a public statement of resignation, he deplored what he called "cavalier treatment by business managers of America's most distinguished magazine...