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Before launching into an investigation of the present-day advising system with the purpose of bettering it, the faculty committee that made the report set down a number of basic principles to guide its discussion...
Airline meteorologists in South America were happy last week. They had found what they had been looking for-a "jet stream" of high-velocity wind in the sub-stratospheric sky. Apparently caused by encounters between air masses of different temperatures, it swooshes along at altitudes above present-day airline routes. A similar jet stream has been discovered in North America weaving crazily over the continent at 25,000 ft. and higher and at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. (TIME, May 29). In the coming years of high-altitude jet transport flying, the streams will become increasingly important...
...More Denial. The present-day effectiveness of "military security" (e.g., during construction of the atom bomb) has made the public suspicious of all official denials. What sort of new, fantastic wonders may be concealed behind the denials? Modern air engines (turbojets, ramjets, rockets) are powerful enough to make almost anything fly. Disc-shaped helicopters with ramjets on their rotor edges are not impossible. They are not midget-manned space ships but their test flights might have provided a base for flying saucer reports...
...patient lose his eye, the physician shall have his fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract (a clouding of the eye's lens) from these harsh beginnings to such present-day refinements as air-conditioned operating rooms and parallel-beam light...
...most viciously satirical passages are directed against the sickly remnants-the gentlemen who drink morning toddies while the floors beneath them are visibly rotting away. At the same time, he desperately hates the hard-souled, faceless Snopeses, whose only purpose in life is to accumulate money. In the present-day South, Faulkner admires only such stiff-back Negroes as Lucas Beauchamp of Intruder in the Dust (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), who endure humiliation with patience and dignity, and those poor whites who cling to their land, their families and their old morality...