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...says he hates the "mad genius" legend he has lived with for 20 years??? though he's beginning to wonder politely about the "genius" part...
Observing such men, Frank A. Munsey, who was something of a chain welder himself, predicted in 1903 that "it will not be many years???five or ten perhaps?before the publishing business of this country will be done by a few concerns." Munsey's timing was off and his prophecy far too sweeping. But for a whole catalogue of reasons, U.S. newspapers have found it increasingly expedient to cut down competition for the sake of survival...
...Horseback. The French army of 1,000,000 men (about half in Algeria) and of venerable traditions has developed a schizoid personality. It is the only army in the world that has been fighting continuously for the past 22 years???World...
Thirteen different men have been chosen in sixteen years???with one man picked three times and one man twice...
...were experimenting with lungs. The lungfish are related to those intrepid pioneers which crawled up on land to become ancestors of reptiles, mammals and birds; also to the Coelacanths, which had fins like rudimentary limbs and which were thought by scientists to have been extinct for 50,000,000 years???until last year, when an astonishing live Coelacanth was brought up in a fishing net off the South African coast (TIME, April 3). The lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming to the surface periodically for air, they can live in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water; when the water disappears...