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...miles high. And here, protruding into space, is the heartland of the antarctic's terror, the vat where much of its wrath and weather is brewed. Over this plateau sweep winds from distant seas, and here snow crystals have fallen like eider down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature may drop as low as 120° below zero, and there...
...great toothless millennium is not here yet, and all over the world little children are still having their nerves drilled out every six months, and are still biting their dentist's fingers in return. At Harvard, specifically, downtrodden College students are still faced with the problem of the third floor of the Hygiene Building...
...Pays What? But even in this mirage of the millennium a serpent slinks. There is discontent-of a kind most interesting to moralists-about the income tax. Internal Revenue Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews, a thoughtful man, has put it well. Asked if people really objected to paying taxes, he said that they did not, so long as they thought they were treated fairly in relation to other taxpayers...
...Peru's verdant Chicama valley, back in the first millennium of the Christian era, lived a happy race known as the Mochicas. Their civilization was perhaps not as brilliant as that of the Incas who came later, yet they managed to live and love in ways that they thought both wise and well. They memorialized their folkways in ceramics, shaped like pots and flagons and called huacos. Last week Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, U.S. sachem of scientific sex studies, popped up among the huacos in the famed Rafael Larco Herrera Museum at Hacienda Chiclin, near Trujillo, still Pursuing...
...collaborated with the Signal Corps in developing combat TV. Sarnoff also saw "a new era in tactical communications . . . which will enable a commander to keep a watchful eye on every section of the battlefield." General Matthew B. Ridgway, Chief of Staff, seemed a little less certain that the millennium was at hand. He observed that the Army "is exploring to the fullest extent possible every scientific or technical advance as it occurs," but warned that "we are not interested in gadgetry as such...