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Princetonians themselves will be the guinea pigs in specific researches coming up. But it will all go on in a quite and unobstrusive way. Since no recommendations concerning methods of instruction or other matters of educational policy lie within the scope of the project, fact-finding for its own sake will be the order of the day. The method of attack will consist in "critical objective analysis, proceeding a step at a time from the simple to the complex as results accumulate...
Although Magic Town is not worked out with much acuteness or grace, it views with a wholesome if very mild disapproval: 1) the overwillingness of many Americans to play guinea pig with their private lives; 2) their ugly and pathetic capacity for materialistic vanity; and 3) the ease with which affection and rust can be abused in dedication...
...descent will be made, if all goes well, in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, some time in September. First, Professor Piccard intends to drop the unmanned bathyscaphe into the sea with a pressure-controlled instrument on board to bring it up again when it has reached a certain depth. If it rises as he expects it to do, the professor himself will take the plunge...
...Guinea Pig. Henry Ford II called the proposal "a disastrous precedent for scuttling . . . the law." He would not become "a guinea pig . . . for all industry." Ford's negotiators would agree to setting up an impartial umpire who would determine whether the union had made "prompt and honest" efforts to prevent illegal walkouts; Ford would not sue if the umpire said they had made the efforts. No, said U.A.W. to that...
...freed American slaves and their descendants had established a ruling class. As late as 1930, a League of Nations commission discovered that Liberia's Vice President Allen Nathaniel Yancy himself was head of a ring of slavers who regularly sold native laborers to Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea. The women of Liberia's Wedabo tribe still sing...