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...William comes from a long-lived family (his father died at 92, his mother at 87) and has his last years carefully planned out. After retiring at 70 (he is now 63) he looks forward to ten more active years to develop his firm belief that, given time for research, he can foretell the weather through statistical periodicity-a theory with which meteorologists disagree. His last years, between 80 and 100, he intends to spend facing a large wall on which he will have drawn a chart of his weather predictions. When his forecasts go wrong, he will commit suicide...
...biological world we find the first necessity is to develop an unalterable hate for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals which it is our business to kill...
...desperately sent for induction almost everybody who could walk, among them a father of eleven children. Worried to sleeplessness were war plants' personnel managers who had to replace critical workers-in August, September and October, Douglas Aircraft Co. lost 11,000 employes, some of whom took years to develop special skills...
...second feature, England's "Target for Tonight," is one of the most successful documentaries to develop from the Allied war effort. It's plot reaches the peak of realism, consisting entirely of an actual raid on an occupied port. The characters play their roles efficiently and quictly, as well they must, for their lives depend on it. The film is the best of all possible propaganda, actual truth...
...gradual evolution of the system has seen the case develop from short and simple problems to larger, more complicated proportion. With this increase in size and complexity has come an improvement in accuracy and completeness. Sometimes, however, there is too much material to be covered in an hour; hence important points are overloked. Professor Malcolm P. McNair, who has been closely connected with the development of the system, pointed out another weakness, when he suggested that "not enough attention is paid to the pedagogical standpoint. A good case should be like a detective story. Clues ought to be there...