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Answer: Chimp B, jealous of his neighbor's popularity, also begins scratching, jumping and chattering in an effort to regain the attention of the spectators. He is forced to imitate A to compete with him. He is forced, in short, to utilize the principle of competitive emulation...
...industry is only now beginning to shake off the shock of the sudden falloff. British auto factories, after cutting back production and putting many workers on short time, are now approaching normal production again. Despite a 37% drop in sales to the U.S. last year, British automakers hope to regain a fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show a new Humber Super-Snipe...
...days a week 24 oarsmen trudge to Newell Boathouse. These are the men from whom the varsity heavyweight eight will be chosen and on whom the Crimson is depending to regain the rowing championship it lost last year...
...Johansson will meet in their third fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. In the first bout. Challenger Johansson knocked out Champion Patterson with a bombardment of right hands. In the second, Patterson knocked out Ingo with a left hook, became the first deposed heavyweight champion to regain the title. The fights proved that both Patterson and Johansson can hit-and be hit. And making matters even more interesting is the fact that the two are a study in contrasting styles and personalities...
...famine, not pestilence, not war will bring back seriousness," Kierkegaard once said. "It is not till the eternal punishments of hell regain their reality that man will turn serious." German Philosopher Karl Jaspers feels that there is a fairly vivid equivalent of the horrors of hell in the threatened nuclear extinction of the human race. The Future of Mankind is a stern call to seriousness. It is also a call to reason, courage and responsibility. It is based on a premise that may sound bleak, but has probably been the rock of man's endurance through the ages...