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...worth passing on to the reader. This selective process demands a critical attitude and operates in two ways. First there is the information itself, for which sources have been evaluated and cross-checked. In developing the story, facts & figures are organized into their proper place, told as they affect men, not as they look in an account book. Sometimes, for instance, a man's offhand remark in a bar may tell more about him than all his political speeches...
David Lester and Leon A. Greenberg established that it is "virtually impossible" to inhale enough alcohol fumes to get intoxicated. The two men were conducting tests to discover how fumes would affect men working with alcohol...
...sunspots themselves, however, but the active gases which cause them, can lead to serious interruption of radio communications and affect the weather, Menzel added. He dismissed as nonsense recent speculation that the sunspots might set off atomic stockpiles...
Colleges are doing little hiring, Clark explained, because of uncertainty over how the draft will affect their enrollments. However, positions are open in many of the smaller teachers colleges, as well as in the field of elementary education...
...well enough in the present atmosphere, that he is acquiring and expanding as rapidly as he can digest it; and that he is not going to attack and that is his basic policy. I do not believe that anything that happens in Korea, or Asia, for that matter, would affect his basic decision...