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...glossy marble floors, fluorescent lights and glass doorways of Lamont Library will not get a chance to metamorphose into a Crystal Palace, Chase Peterson. First Marshal of the Class of '52 announced yesterday...
...safety of the U.S. demanded that the plants be kept open. Truman was not usurping powers of Congress; he had invited Congress to pass a law covering the situation the day after the seizure. "The President said he would abide by whatever Congress did," said Perlman. "He made that crystal-clear." Birdlike little Justice Frankfurter squeaked in agitation. "Are you suggesting that because Congress did not act that that confirmed the President's action?" he asked. You could infer, said Perlman weakly, that Congress was content to let the President's action stand...
...uncompromising opposition" to any ambassador to the Vatican. Said Dr. Grey: "Baptists will speak for themselves to every aspirant for the White House this year and every year. In conscience's sake, they cannot countenance any candidate, even one of their own number,* who does not make it crystal clear that he opposes any and all missions to the Vatican or to any other religious organization in the world...
...means had been developed before to polarize light, but it involved the use of quartz crystals, which were arranged so that the crystal lattice was aligned along one axis. Light would be transmitted freely by one axis of the crystals, but it would be blocked entirely by the other axis. This worked--in theory. But in practice, a perfect alignment of the crystals was impossible, and their sizes made the apertures through which light passed comparatively small...
...polyvinyl alcohol a thick plastic--was stretched. In the stretching, the molecules of the plastic would align themselves with their poles in the same direction. Land had a cheap, permanent device that was far more efficient, both in the transmission and the exclusion of light, than was its crystal predecessor...