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...York Central's Board Chairman Robert R. Young won a belated victory last week. After a bitter, 2½-year battle between Young and Randolph Phillips, a former associate, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for one of Young's pet projects: a plan to wipe out $18 million in dividend arrears to preferred stockholders of Young's Alleghany Corp., which has working control of the Central with 973,500 shares of stock. Under the plan, each share of Alleghany's 5½% preferred stock would be exchanged for ten shares of new 6% preferred...
...this detail of mosquito behavior that the World Health Organization and other international bodies, plus 60 governments, are now basing a $500 million blitz campaign to wipe malaria off the world's disease map within ten years...
What is really needed, said University of California's Chemist Joel Hildebrand in a speech called "Education in the Light of the Satellites," is to wipe away the distortions of John Dewey's thinking that have led so many schools to fall for the cults of life adjustment. "One of our greatest dangers lies in an anti-intellectualism fostered by school authorities who should be among its most valiant opponents. One expression of it is the pious cliche, 'We teach boys and girls, not subjects.' The superintendent of schools in a large city puts this into...
...Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
Theatrically, it would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...