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delegate at the truce talks. On the eastern front last week, attacking South Koreans were driven back by counterattacking North Koreans. South of Kumsong, the Reds' central front bastion, U.N. forces gained more than a mile against heavy machine-gun fire. But the general pattern was one of watchful waiting...
...story seemed to fit a familiar pattern: Was this not another case of a big, nasty, imperialist nation bullying a smaller, law-abiding country? As a matter of fact, the injured party was Great Britain and the arrogant bully was little Egypt...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...
Labor shortages in general are not a problem, but there is a crying need for specialists: engineers, machinists, tool & die makers, molders and pattern makers, etc. The engineering shortage is the most acute. Last year U.S. colleges and universities turned out 52,000 engineers. This year 38,000 will be graduated. The 1952 forecast...
...patient's family tree shows clearly that she is the offspring of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier. Her blood meets all the tests for true hemophilia. The doctors are sure that they have found a case to fit the classic Mendelian pattern. But they have no idea how she came to be born alive, or how she survived the hazards of growing up, menstruation and pregnancy...