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Star of the German team was Hans Guenther Winkler, a 28-year-old aspirin salesman from Warendorf, who was mounted on Halla, a brown, nine-year-old mare that he had picked up as "a worthless nag" 2½ years ago and trained into a sensational jumper. Peering through his spectacles, he gave her a remarkably relaxed ride, took her easily over the first five jumps. On the sixth and toughest jump-a 5-ft.-high and 5-ft.-wide "double oxer"-the mare's hind hoofs, desperately straining upwards, did not quite clear the white bar and sent...
...carefully tabulated, passed along to styling and engineering and to President Curtice, who studies them carefully. The surveys are important, e.g., pushbutton doors were made standard equipment when the research department found that 70% of the people interviewed preferred them to handle doors. But surveys would be worthless without a sure styling instinct. Last year Harlow Curtice looked over the roomful of experimental cars, picked the experimental Pontiac and Chewy station wagon as the cars the public would like best. His stylists disagreed, but Curtice's judgment was borne out by the research department poll...
...free inquiry" are in many quarters regarded as little more than cliches is evidence of this split status. The pressure is to conform, but it is only too plain that a Russian Research Center report slanted to fit the views of a particular political party is more than worthless--it becomes a positive danger. And when a natural scientist finds that his fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity of his fellow scientists in the future. In its more extreme form, this pressure shows itself...
...Roman Empire declined and malaria spread from the nearby swamps, Paestum died. By 800 A.D. it was a forest-shrouded ghost city. Forgotten, it was bypassed by war and progress and written off as "nothing but a sun-baked collection of fine columns and a pile of worthless stones...
ROBERT R. YOUNG won an important victory in his battle over reorganization of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific Railroad. The ICC reversed itself, approved a plan that would give some value to 828,395 shares of previously worthless MoPac common stock, 49% of which is owned by Young's Alleghany Corp...