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...social insects,* ants are the most highly developed. As many as eleven castes stratify some ant species: even the simplest colonies contain queens, drones, workers, soldiers. The drone caste contains all the colony's few males, whose sole function is sexual. So is the queen's. But the workers and soldiers are all sterile...
...When some further emergency forces the President of the United States to act as seriously as he talks, and to establish a War Policy Board whose only function is to checkmate the might of Hitler's Germany with every resource of brain, heart and hand that America possesses, we may then possibly see ... not only . . . how we are to win our gigantic battle but what we shall do with the fruits of peace and plenty which it will finally bring...
...regards money-making as no bar to respectable publishing. Last week he broke with PM's ad-less tradition by selling space in Parade's Tennessean section to the Nashville Gas & Heating Co. Later, if present progress continues, he plans a fat ad budget. He continues to function as efficiency expert, selling ideas to a soap and a steel company. But he shows no inclination to retire as editor of Parade, no matter if it makes a million...
...institute was a new idea, tried for the first time this summer by the U.S. branch of the International Student Service, Eleanor Roosevelt's latest fancy. I.S.S., a 21-year-old student relief organization whose chief present function is "to enlist American students in the struggle against totalitarianism," decided to bring college leaders together to train them for the job. From a list of 80 prominent collegians recommended by college administrators, it picked 32 by means of a history test.* Mrs. Roosevelt invited them to the big, rambling Campobello house, scurried round to collect beds for the 29 boys...
Planned for months, the Support Commands clearly showed Air Forces' recognition of its dual function: 1) operation as a separate striking force; 2) operation with the land forces as aerial cavalry (reconnaissance), infantry (machine-gun attack) and artillery (bombing...