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...Having been agreed for some time on a partial report covering all other features of the Social Security Bill, conferees recessed until this week to await completion of a complex compromise aimed at breaking their long deadlock on the Senate's amendment permitting private old-age pension systems...
...International Neurological Congress. To them, the brain, cathedral of human intelligence, is no more than 2½ lb. of raw meat, the cerebrospinal nervous system, conveyor of human will to muscles, a set of puppeteer's strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare to touch them with a knife requires unpassionate fingers...
...knowledge of detection and prosecution. In another the administrators of the nation's 3,300 nonFederal prisons would be shown how the Federal Bureau of Prisons runs its penal institutions. And to the third in the Bureau of Investigation would go local law enforcement officers for instruction in the complex art of crook catching. This week the last project was the first to get underway...
...classifying countless millions of diverse objects-meteors, planets, comets, stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress in 1922 at Rome. Since then it has met in England. The Netherlands, the U. S., once every three or four years...
...said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's legal pathway. In return he had listened sympathetically to Mr. Corcoran's earnest pleas for his support of the Public Utility Bill. But the bill was so drastic, so complex, that he had been unable to make up his mind until Mr. Corcoran threatened him just before the vote...