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Sliding from the Peak. Behind the swirling clouds of political dust that surrounded the farm situation, it was possible to locate and nail down some solid economic facts. Pieced together, they produced a picture of U.S. agriculture that bore little resemblance to the scene of despair conjured up amid cries of havoc...
...Humanities 2 lectures in Sanders Theater for box seat, so that he could "survey the crop of girls from every angle." "For the first three weeks he learned little about the Odyssey. But after a while he sighed, the objects of his attention "found being beautiful a bore" and he started to listen to the lectures...
Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy (TIME...
...things happening this very minute, but the real brilliancy of Wide World may lie in its avoidance of the TV interview. The only one attempted, at the Texas Fair, proved again that-given a microphone and someone to interview-an announcer can turn any subject into a crashing bore. The words needed in Wide World were supplied by Dave Garroway and kept to a literate minimum...
...Question of Filtration. Then there is a little-known aspect of human circulation on which Dr. Page and others have been working. It may go far to solve the riddle of how atherosclerosis begins. In addition to the direct blood flow down the bore of the arteries to its destination in the capillaries, parts of it also perfuse through the arterial walls. Thus they reach many of the body's tissues and supply them with nourishing chemicals...