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...report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection. The selection is not, and cannot be, "scientific" or "objective." It is made by human beings who bring to the job their own personal experience and education, their own values. They make statements about facts. Those statements, invariably, involve ideas...
...biggest tycoon of the lot, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Walter S. Carpenter Jr., took time to write the longest letter, four single-spaced pages packed with some hard sense about salaries. What it came down to, Carpenter told Complainant Benson, was this: How much did the company profit on the high-priced executives-and how much were they worth in the going market? As for Du Pont executives, he wrote: "I believe competitors . . . would be willing to pay . . . as much. . . . I believe the company's interest is better served by paying that compensation than...
Three more flights were made that day, the brothers taking turns at the controls. The longest was 59 seconds, for a distance of 852 feet. Then the wind picked up the plane, rolled it over and wrecked it. But the Wright brothers, bicycle mechanics of Dayton, had proved that man could conquer...
...Missouri, where a "separate but equal" law school has had its longest test, the powerful St. Louis Post-Dispatch pronounced it a "mistake." Said the PD: it costs only $228 a year to educate each white law student at the University of Missouri. But the state must pay $807 for each law student in the separate school-and the 44 Negroes still don't get a really equal education. Admitting Negroes to University of Missouri graduate schools, said the PD, was "the one best way" to correct an "expensive error...
...Gandhi was in no condition to fast for long. (His longest heretofore: three weeks. His most recent fast, last September, lasted only 73 hours.) Worried doctors who hovered over him thought he might not live beyond two weeks...