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...mile run (3 min. 58 sec.), lanky John Landy, 24, was given the Order of the British Empire. Britain's great miler, Dr. Roger Bannister, had been ignored, but more because the list was so dull, London's press exploded in columns of indignation. The editorial consensus: the list had deteriorated into "a haven for aging admirals and bureaucrats...
...Consensus Universalis But science, the 19th century's bringer of light, has become the 20th century's caster of darkness...
...reproduction flaws,' he said, 'but this cheap little music-for-the-masses disk contains a flamboyant Scheherazade worthy of your steel.' " The connoisseur was so unsettled that he discussed the lowbrow disk at length, thus shattering his reputation. "A chamber-music man, my foot!" was the consensus. Bonnard, on the other hand, "now is recognized as one of the leading connoisseurs in all greater Astoria...
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST JR., in his "Editor's Report": The consensus would seem to indicate Democratic dark horses as the probable winners in most of the races. There is no doubt that the failure of divergent factors in the [Republican] party to reconcile their differences and form a united front is one of the prime reasons for the present state of affairs. I think the answer can be stated: McCarthy. In 1952 Joe McCarthy was a tremendous Democratic problem. In 1954 Joe McCarthy is a tremendous Republican problem. Whereas the Democrats were unable to steal the anti-Commie ball...
...Montreal last week, members of the American Statistical Association met to size up the economic future. The consensus of the delegates was that a mild business upswing will soon take place. Declared Chief Economist Martin Gainsbrugh of the National Industrial Conference Board: "The current plateau in business activity is not the prologue to stagnation, but rather a promising first act in the American drama of further sustained expansion...