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...eventual fate of the legislation, now draped limply as a surrealist watch on the table of the Senate Labor Committee, hung on the attitude of the man in the White House...
...there were 640 in 1940. This was one good result of Japan's action last year in setting up an independent United Japanese Christian Church and barring all foreigners from executive church positions. Over 2,000 other American Protestant missionaries are still stationed in occupied China. Their likely fate: internment...
...President watched the clock and his timetable. But the stationmaster was still Adolf Hitler, whose Reichmarshal Hermann Goring was discussing the fate of France with ancient Marshal Petain. The President did not want a declared U.S.-Japan war. Hitler did. They had the same reason: diversion of the U.S. war effort away from Britain and Russia...
...interested in biological pranks but in study of cellular and embryonic development. A further reason: callous to the delicate distinctions and aims of science, newshawks might well sensationalize his discoveries, warn damsels to shun snowdrifts, wear woolies. And, like all parthenogeneticists, Shapiro must keep in mind the fate of pioneering Dr. Pincus, who was once quietly dropped from Harvard because his rabbit tinkering was judged to be in rather bad academic taste...
...tension of a midnight phone-call, or vivifying the nickname of "The Fat Man," and you have a nearly perfect thriller. It is marred only by the ending. We may be grateful for the absence of sentimentality, but even a detective's romance should not meet so brusque a fate...