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...roar. It might also get echoes from Venus and Mars. If there were a spaceship cruising near the moon, the telescope could track it easily. If spaceships ever cruise among the planets, such giant dishes may guide them through space like the radars that help airliners land on fogbound, present-day airports...
...American Newspaper Publishers Association, stepped up before 1,000 newspaper production men and said sternly: "The day of easy money [for newspapers] is gone . . . Some newspapers have shrunk, and more have died than we like to talk about. More will shrink and die if we do not meet our present-day problems." Publisher Slocum was gloomy about the newspaper business with reason. All over the U.S., rising costs have squeezed profit margins of newspaper publishers to the lowest point in years...
...firm and unequivocal, but regretful and full of understanding of what "yes" would mean to Dr. Oppenheimer, to the legions of Oppenheimer partisans, and to the other legions who would read only the headlines. Moreover, they said "yes" the hard way; they absolved Physicist Oppenheimer of any charges of present-day disloyalty, or of any "attachment to the Soviet Union"; they commended his "high degree of discretion, reflecting an unusual ability to keep to himself vital secrets." Their verdict lay in a new and carefully reasoned proposition: beyond loyalty and discretion lie certain harsh requirements of security that Robert Oppenheimer...
Melanie Langdon is the adoring, child-like wife of a rising lawyer in present-day London, the doting mother of an infant son and a happy patient who has just been told that the worst is over in her seven-month siege of TB. Pleasantly contemplating a happy future, she falls asleep on a Victorian chaise longue, a cherished trophy from an antique-buying safari. She wakes up neither in her drawing room nor in her century nor in her own body...
...day be admitted, alongside that of children and primitives, to "the sanctified galleries of art museums." Says he: "When we consider that animal art has remained constant for so many, many centuries, perhaps we should give the animals their full due and recognize them as the perennial modernists. Our present-day art is akin to theirs in essence...