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Blue Hills of Austria. Everything-backward environment, shabby heredity, dingy ambitions, neurotic sensitivity- prepared Hitler for his future role. But the beginnings of the future scourge of mankind were bucolic, even idyllic. Hitler was born (1889) at Braunau in Austria-Hungary, among the blue foothills of the Tirolean redoubt...
...departed leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward. That is what he would want...
...James Jeans deduced from its shape that the Milky Way (which includes the Earth) is probably in an advanced stage of senility. But this week one of the world's most eminent authorities on galaxies, Harvard's Professor Harlow Shapley, suggested that Sir James had it all backward. According to Shapley's theory, the Milky Way is in the first, not the last, stage of evolution...
...Morgan, is also a distinguished visionary: former president of pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform in the U.S. and throughout the world...
Exercise and Creosote. Never strong (he lived for years on milk, raw eggs and whiskey), he contracted tuberculosis, but refused to go to a healthier climate until he had finished Looking Backward's sequel, Equality. In Colorado, the current treatment-exercise and creosote-further weakened him. He returned to Chicopee Falls, managed to walk from the carriage to the rocking chair on the front porch, slumped into it, said "Thank God I'm home." A month later, on May 22, 1898, he died...