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Included in the passport are bits of information that any traveler likes to know. There is a trip schedule based on the latest calculations of voyage times to the various planets. One column lists the velocity the ship will need to escape from the gravitational pull of the planet on which it lands: 2.2 miles per second for Mercury, 6.3 for Venus, 3.1 for Mars, and 1.4 for Moon. Other handy facts: Jupiter's atmosphere is a combination of methane and ammonia; Mercury's day is 88 times as long as the earth's, while Mars...
Every child we see believes in Santa Claus. None of them pull Santa's beard; and none of them ask why they didn't get what they asked for last year, because, as you remember, Santa never promised anything. The most disruptive thing that happened to the Santa Claus department all week was the arrival of a man from Beechnut Gum. He had several bins of the stuff, and suggested that we pass it out free, which I was glad to do. Spang, however, looked at the gum somewhat goggle-eyed and announced, "Well, I'm certainly not going...
...Crider] to make a personal attack on Senator Taft under his own name on the same editorial page in which from time to time in the future he might be expected to comment rationally on the Senator's speeches and campaign." Snapped Crider: Choate "thinks you must pull your punches in the event that the candidate you don't like wins the nomination. I feel that you must not only support the guy you're for, but also lambast...
...perfect expression of 100% volume." But he rips into the plain white with a bull-like energy. One slashing stroke or bright blob deserves another. Each changes the nature of the canvas, and therefore the strategy of attack. Hofmann describes the process as creating "push and pull on the picture surf ace." He insists it is no child's play; it requires "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense...
...appealing primarily to morality rather than knowledge to pull colleges and the country out of their supposed moral quagmire, the Carnegie Foundation has opened itself to the charge of seeking an easy way out. Those periods in western history which have been marked by the prevalence of moralistic over empirical teaching were quite as subject to scandals and moral convulsions as other periods. The mere fact of a widely-taught morality does not make any society moral; there must also be a congruence of the moral order with the conditions of the society in which it is to prevail...