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Cheery Universe. The universe of continuous creation, Hoyle believes, is a very cheerful place compared with earlier conceptions. Most early theoretical universes were dismally "running down." Eventually, the older cosmologists thought, all space would be uniform and dead. There would be no light, no life, no motion except the random wanderings of faintly warm molecules...
...DISENCHANTED (388 pp.) - Budd Schulberg-Random House...
...BARONS (579 pp.)-Charles Werfenbaker-Random House...
...dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal's McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone. Instead, after careful autopsies, he found only evidences of poisoning such as he got with injections of substances picked at random from the laboratory shelves. The rats' adrenal glands were enlarged, the thymus wasted away and the stomach ulcerated. Dr. Hans Selye concluded sadly that he had been wasting his time. Then it struck him: none of the substances which he had injected had directly caused death, but all had caused...
Questionnaires from the "Undergraduate Study of Harvard Education"--the "Whole Man" report--have been sent to an undisclosed number of freshmen picked at random, Council member Donlad L. Blachmer '52 announced last night...