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First: the Invisible. Most first-year physics courses start as they have started for decades-with levers, gears, and Galileo's falling weights, gradually work their way up to electric currents. As a rule, students are told only as an afterthought about the new science of particles...
Reserve to Grow On. Ike's emphasis on growth in freedom was no casual afterthought. White House advisers are well aware that the Democrats are starting to take up the refrain that Eisenhower's refusal to expand public spending has retarded the growth rate, when, say the critics, it should be expanding to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Pundit Walter Lippmann took off from the President's message most vehemently, accused the President of putting "private comfort and private consumption ahead of national need . . . The challenge of the Soviet Union," he wrote, "has been demanding...
...long, lanky balloon rose slowly from a sheltered valley in the wooded hills outside Rapid City, S. Dak. Climbing slowly into the far blue sky, it gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear...
...Marx, Author Russell demolishes the Red bogeyman not only for sociological or economic errors but for his faults in epistemology (theory of knowledge). Unfortunately, the power of logic stands somewhat diminished when Russell is bound to mention, almost as an afterthought, that "nearly half the world today is governed by states that put implicit trust in Marx's theories...
...rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California has ever heard of Pat Brown," he told Columnist Joseph Alsop. "And if nobody's ever heard of you, how the hell do you become a serious presidential candidate?" And, as a wistful afterthought: "If only I could change places with Nelson Rockefeller...