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Actual purpose of the independence bill was hinted by Director Ernest Gruening of the Interior Department's Division of Territories and Island Possessions: to remind Puerto Rico that, although U. S. colonies perpetually grumble, the colonial arrangement usually works much more to their profit than to the profit of the U. S. Said Dr. Gruening last week: "Nothing could be further from the spirit and purpose of this Administration than to keep a people, not consulted originally about its annexation, under our flag if they do not desire to be there. ... If, on the other hand, they decide...
...essence, the Burger bombproof cellar is a boilerlike contraption of heavy steel slightly larger than an automobile trailer. Buried in the ground, it is fitted with bunks and provision shelves for householders. A special pump keeps gas from seeping in by increasing the interior pressure. As in a submarine, the air is kept fresh by passing it through coils of chemicals...
Show Downs. The first thing in his life that Torkild Rieber set his mind upon was his own career. Born in a little town called Voss in the interior of Norway, he went to sea at 14, thereby upsetting the future plotted for him by his father, a progressive woolen manufacturer who expected to rear his eldest son in the family business. Son Torkild learned seamanship in sailing vessels, passed his examination for a master's ticket at 19, got his first command at 21. It was a sailing vessel and, more important, an oil tanker...
...advance royalties on one book). Now & again he made a quick trip back into aristocratic society or home to Sparkenbroke Hall, to tell his still-hopeful wife politely that he no longer loved her, to sniff the fragrance of his native woodland and brood awhile in the interior of his family vault...
Astronomers do not know why stars blow up. For some reason the interior seems to start releasing energy faster than the surface can radiate it. Something of the sort happened to a star in NGC 4273 long before the first men appeared on Earth. Light from the blow-up started toward Earth at 186,000 miles per second, sped on for 7,000,000 years. Thirty thousand years ago it reached the fringe of the Milky Way. Four years ago it was inside Proxima Centauri, Earth's nearest star. Going fast enough to circle Earth seven times...