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...Herawati Diah, editor of an Indonesian newspaper and magazine, will open the program with a talk on her country. She will be followed by a panel of four Seminar members who will answer questions from the floor about Britain. The panel will include Michael Davis of the London Air Ministry, Peter Kennedy, physics lecturer at London University, William Ross, a Member of Parliament, and John Townsend, editor of the Manchester Guardian Weekly...
...Side Chicago building, three miles from the stadium where the world's first atomic pile went into action 14 years ago, a shrilling alarm bell signaled the birth last week of U.S. industry's Atomic Age. As a white-smocked scientist twisted the knobs on a control panel outside a monolithic concrete cubicle, a lighted dial flashed: REACTOR ON. Thus the world's first nuclear reactor devoted exclusively to industrial research went into operation at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation...
...Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only a panel of female judges would see each contestant in a bathing suit; the girls could appear before male judges only when properly clad in veil and head-to-toe burka. The beauty sponsors even promised that when Miss Pakistan reached California, she would be in a good position...
...month-old Negro boycott of Jim Crow buses in Montgomery, Ala., has taught the South a fact of economic life: in regions where most bus passengers are Negroes, the boycott is a powerful economic weapon. Last week in Montgomery a three-judge panel in Federal Court-all judges born and raised in Alabama-gave the boycott a sharp legal edge: the court ruled 2-1 that the city's Jim Crow bus seating violates the 14th Amendment and is unconstitutional...
...with Sculpture. Zorach tried his first sculpture, carved out of a butternut panel salvaged from an old bureau, while summering in 1917 in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Where Zorach felt that his paintings were derivative, he found that working directly in wood and stone gave him a sense of coming into...