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...Sailor Bob Murphy wades into a fight with the free-swinging enthusiasm of a shore-leave sailor for a barroom brawl. Last week, facing Jake LaMotta at Yankee Stadium, Murphy was right in his element, throwing punches with the thumping regularity of a piston-if not with a piston's precision...
Canada's Lester Pearson, longtime crusader for cease-fire (and for admitting Communist China to the U.N.) suggested that it would be a "great mistake" not to follow up Malik's move. French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman saw in Malik's speech a "positive element" that would permit opening negotiations...
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...long as science believes that what it explores is absolute (whatever that may mean)," Professor Synge is sure that scientists will be treated as a race of super priests, shut away to perform their rituals. "Only when the human element gains the upper hand . . . can [they] relax into something resembling a grin. If the mysterious face which we glimpse through the darkness is our own, we can no longer pay it the old reverence...
Provost Buck believes that the Corporation would consider constructing a theatre building if a "full endowment" were offered for a project which would be a "teaching tool and not merely an element of applied education...