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...Hollywood as "Caesar and Cleopatra." It fits all the adjectives a cinema press-agent can wholesale: colossal, stupendous, terrific. Scenes of giant Egyptian idols against a red, evening sky, the sand-swept Sphinx, the great columns of Cleopatra's palace, are all magnificent, but unhappily they obscure the important element-a scenario by Bernard Shaw...
...Chief element in the climate, and beginning to be savored by all, was the fact that the U.S. was producing goods for peace again, and on a vast scale. Industrial output was skyrocketing, bottlenecks were disappearing, employment was at a record 56,740,000. It was possible that there would be an acute labor scarcity by autumn...
Radioactive carbon is not new; "C-14" has been made in cyclotrons for seven years but in even more minute quantities and at far greater cost. Other elements can also be made radioactive, but C14 is the most useful for cancer research because 1) it remains radioactive for thousands of years, can be recovered and used again, 2) carbon is the key element in all body chemistry. Barnard's researchers will use it as a tracer (it signals its presence by shooting off radiation) to study the metabolism of cancerous cells which must be understood before the disease...
...then can reestablish the equilibrium, if not the Old World, between the two new ones? Old Europe, which during so many centuries was the guide of the universe, is in a position to constitute, in the heart of a world that tends to divide itself into two, the necessary element of compensation and understanding...
Under its present constitution the Student Council has been equipped with an electoral procedure that has allowed one element in the student body, the Club group, to achieve representation far beyond its numerical strength. This constitution has licensed the Council to dabble in risky Freshman dances and smokers, entailing investment of $3000 of money subscribed by students who had little idea that these funds might be devoted to projects which hardly can be termed "charitable." Further, there is no constitutional limitation on Council spending; thus such questionable expenses as $275 for private dinners and pictures cannot be legally disputed...