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...fate of the draft bill fitted a paralyzing pattern: long delay followed by frantic, last-minute improvisation. President Truman had requested draft extension last September. No bill reached the House floor until April 10. There it was emasculated. Then the May 15 deadline closed in on the Senate...
...Chamber of Commerce viewpoint, the Memphis of Ed Crump left little to be desired. But was it a part of free America? Tennessee's own Andy Jackson would not have thought so. Yet, as muckraker Lincoln Steffens discovered four decades ago, boss-ridden Memphis had followed the pattern of countless U.S. municipalities. In his way, Ed Crump was a classic American figure...
...sentiment of nationalism had not waned. But some new facts and forces were working in the direction of European unity. In every European country social and political struggles were in progress, but these struggles did not greatly differ from, nation to nation. Basic issues everywhere fell into the same pattern, all turning on the contest between those who sought security even if they had to give up freedom, and those who thought that, in the long run, the security of the individual would only be possible if freedom was retained...
Life & Death. Suggestive as it is of death (it is second only to heart troubles as top U.S. killer), cancer is in fact life run wild: a multiplication of cells, but in abnormal pattern. The riddle of the disease will not be solved until the secrets of the rebel cells which ravage human tissue are revealed. Meanwhile, the answer must be sought through research in the basic sciences of chemistry, biology and physics...
...bacchanalian thought pattern was disturbed by the bells, which maddeningly stopped after playing three-quarters of their tune. Vag vaguely remembered something about a ten o'clock class, and hoisting himself up, he moved his tie one quarter of an inch to the right, straightened the little gold bird on his lapel, and started off with a long-ago-and-faraway look on his face. Floating up Holyoke Street and across Mass. Avenue, F. Scott Fitzvag entered a strangely quiet Yard. Harvard Hall, his destination, was deserted. It is now Monday morning at ten o'clock, said...