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...Europe before taking up his lifework as professor of theology at Woodstock and editor (since 1941) of the learned quarterly Theological Studies. Thin, towering Father Murray is still the debater (and more subtly the actor) of his high school days. Lecturing to his classes of fledgling Jesuits at granite-grey Woodstock-where his major specialty is the Trinity-Theologian Murray makes effective use of his long, well-manicured hands and his well-pitched baritone, which is as clear as his well-organized thought...
...Every man would like to be a black sheep if he could. I'm giving him the chance-in a harmless way, of course." With these words, burly, grey-haired Burton Browne, a fulltime adman and part-time restaurateur, broke ground this week for the latest firewatering place to serve Chicago's expense-account society...
...cell No. 20 in Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison last week, a grey-haired prisoner lay on his bunk and refused all food, though he occasionally took a swig of water to ease his hunger pains. At 64, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico's No. 1 Communist and No. 1 living artist, was on a hunger strike. His stomach troubled him, but Siqueiros was adamant: "I will continue until we get justice...
Such advances in the flexibility of the telephone are the result of a $25 million 50-year research effort; it produced a completely new electronic switching system that works 1,000 times faster than current dial telephones. The heart of the system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets in Electronic Central office at Morris, is 12,000 tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second...
Here Snow adopted the role of storyteller and began to describe the two characters in his cast: Sir Henry Tizard, "the best scientific mind in our time that has ever applied itself to war," and F. A. Lindemenn, Lord Cherwell, who was Winston Ohurchill's "grey eminence" in scientific matters during the thirties and into...