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John Foster Dulles was born in the antiseptic glare of a North American hospital. He was a homo sapiens, and was well raised. He worked on Wall Street, which is somewhere between Prospect Park and the Bronx Zoo. He liked Giant Pandas, Wall Street Bulls, and trial balloons. There was every reason to believe that he would like Hermione Esmerelda and that Hermione Esmerelda would like...
...Actual subway time from Brooklyn to The Bronx: one hour and 20 minutes. Actual running time of Russia's Sputnik I: one hour and 36.2 minutes...
...Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, speaking at Fordham University Law School: "The space age promises to require far greater concessions of national sovereignty to international control and regulation. Earth satellites are circling the globe now in about the same time that it takes to get from Brooklyn to The Bronx by subway.* Since Sputnik, the question 'How high is up?' has taken on vast new significance. While historically sovereign jurisdiction extends to the air above the land, it would be totally unfeasible for such jurisdiction to extend to outer space. International control will be imperative...
Calculus for Kicks. Bronx High's 2,600 students-a third of them girls-are unashamedly unaverage; some take sly amusement in explaining to visitors that they read advanced calculus for kicks, in their spare time, and many of them are precociously sure where they are heading, e.g., "Harvard for a doctorate, then teach math." Marriage waylays most girls heading for graduate school, but a survey of both sexes a few years ago showed that 13% of the school's alumni had taken two or more years of graduate study. Not all Bronx High students go into science...
Next year Bronx High will leave its dirty yellow brick pile (Former Principal Meister will move in with his newly founded Bronx Community College) and take over a lavish, $8,000,000 brain trainery, equipped with special labs for independent student research. Last week the joyous grind for next year's scholarships continued; Math Department Chairman Irving Dodes dismissed a class studying symbolic logic, said wearily and wonderingly: "I can't sit down without kids coming in, pestering me for advanced math books or trying to prove the impossible. It's a continual effort to keep...