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...joined the Catholic Church within the same week. I imagine that probably I will not ever be admitted to either." Mr. Broun said the main objective of the Guild is to stay in the C. I. O., added that "Mr. Green is the greatest single obstacle in the path of the labor movement. . . . The stone must be rolled away...
...purpose of the bill is to enable a spouse who has been frustrated by the jailing or shutting up of the other spouse in an insane asylum to cite this as grounds for divorce and eventually wed again. "This bill would launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot see the end!" cried the high church Marquess of Salisbury. "There is not even any definition in this bill of either 'desertion' or 'incurable insanity' " although it would make them grounds for divorce, and the Marquess went on in his opposition...
...tiny Canton Island, near the sunrise end of the shadow path, confused frigate birds came in from the sea when darkness fell. In Peru, at the sunset end, bats flitted around the fast-working scientists. Radio crews of NBC at Canton Island and of CBS in Peru were able to broadcast lyrical descriptions. The sun's corona was almost circular, a form associated with the high sunspot activity currently manifested by the sun. Exulted white-thatched Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium : "This was the most beautiful of four totalities I have observed...
...which WAE flies on the Salt Lake radio beam. This beam is notorious for "multiple effects" (splitting around mountains). Pilot Samson crashed 35 miles off course, apparently had lost the beam altogether. If he had been just a little higher, he would have cleared Hardy Ridge, had a safe path on to the airport. As it was, the plane was smashed into confetti and completely buried by snow. At week's end no bodies had yet been recovered and postal inspectors stood guard with guns while they salvaged a rich batch of gems...
...week to make the best of the late afternoon performance-one Peruvian, one Japanese, three U. S. Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc. lent an airliner to take a group of observers up 30,000 ft. into the crystal clarity of the substratosphere. At the other end of the eclipse path, the National Geographic Society-U. S. Navy Expedition set up camp on Canton Island in the Phoenix group, inhabited mainly by millions of rats (descended from shipwrecked ancestors). This party was equipped with a new material for measuring the polarization of the coronal light, a newly invented spinning filter...