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What a radar "sees" is not the thundercloud itself; raindrops or hailstones inside it reflect the radar's waves. The fierce air currents do not show up on the scope, but the presence of large masses of raindrops is a strong indication of turbulence. A plane equipped with the proper radar can steer a safe course, even at night, among a herd of thunderstorms. The Weather Bureau's radar can spot a storm as far away as 100 miles, and warn planes to steer clear...
...hidebound by the attorney's dogmas, he probed behind them to see how they squared with actualities. To equate legal formulas with changing modern values, a new lead in thinking was demanded; he advanced a belief that laws are above men but that they must serve men and reflect the ethics under which men live in a moment of history. Thirty years ago he realized our path must lie in an ideal of cooperation rather than one solely of competitive self-assertion...
...Council's work is its annual Institute. TIME gladly became a co-sponsor of the 1946-47 Institute because its editors believed that Clevelanders' efforts to inform themselves on world affairs paralleled TIME'S own effort to bring world news to its readers.* No forum can reflect every color of thought on every nation's problems and policies; nor can it give every shade of U.S. opinion. (The Cleveland Institute, for instance, omits specific treatment of such important, complex problems as Palestine and India.) The program...
Hollywood's Eyes. "As for the big films, the last thing in the world I would ask of them is that they should all be socially significant. They would be a colossal bore if they were. One can, however, reasonably ask that they should . . . reflect something of the reality of our time. ... I doubt if the individual destiny is quite so important and the public destiny quite so unimportant as Hollywood would make them appear...
...Reisner bequest will fill out Harvard's haphazard collection of detective stories, started by such mystery-loving professors as the late George Lyman Kittredge. History-conscious Harvard keeps them for research purposes, buys a half dozen new titles every year because they reflect "part of the American scene." It 'makes no attempt to circulate them widely. Says Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf uneasily: "We are a research library, and I should think that anyone who wanted a detective story would go to some other library...