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...growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white and ponderosa pine to meet the national building demands. Says Jim Hilbert, a local Teamster official: "Sure, we ought to grow. Create more jobs. City fathers run this place, and they don't want growth. But you can't stop it." William H. Cowles III, publisher of the Spokane Spokesman-Review, says hopefully: "We can learn from others, and maybe we will...
Wisconsin motorists may never see a purple cow, but they are rubbernecking at an enormous piebald blue one emblazoned on Farmer Hilbert Schneider's 75-year-old barn at Johnson Creek, 34 miles east of Madison on Interstate 94. The blue cow, shown fullface, peers out from a halo of stars, sunbursts and corn stalks in a dazzling 1,530-sq.-ft. mural...
...importance of a scientific work, as the German mathematician David Hilbert once observed, can be measured by the number of previous publications it makes superfluous to read. Scientists and technologists dare not wait for their current journals...
...spiral. You lose money, so you raise prices. This irritates people, so fewer people eat here. So you lose more money," said John H. Hilbert, a third-year Law student and a member of the Law Student Council...
There's a story, probably apocryphal, that I'm fond of about the great mathematician Hilbert. He was attending a conference in Copenhagen, and they took him to see the very celebrated bridge they have there. He admired it duly and then said, "It's astonishing! Wonderful! It's Exactly like the bridge at Hamburg." At which the local Danes, his hosts, were much affronted because there's no bridge at all like that in Hamburg. They said, "How is it like a bridge at Hamburg?" Hilbert answered, "Why it goes from this side to that side and the river...