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...zone, a young man who made a name as a writer under Naziism works in a rock quarry and wonders how he can ever bring up three growing boys. In the British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...
...Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Major Charles Rock Lamoureux, rapped three times on the door of the House of Commons. Admitted, he marched stiffly down the aisle, bowing to the Speaker as he approached the dais to announce that the Senate awaited the presence of the Commons. In the form set centuries ago by the Mother of Parliaments, the M.P.s trooped into the Senate Chamber. There, black-robed Mr. Justice Kerwin, filling the role of the vacationing Governor General, gave royal assent to 300 bills. He thereupon declared the third session of the 20th Parliament of Canada prorogued...
...been split for two years between the Russians on the one hand and the U.S. on the other. U.N. seemed, in fact, a good deal like a Town Meeting of Two Worlds. And even if the U.S. and Russia were to settle their differences, U.N.'s really rock-bottom problem remained. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins had stated it well two years ago. He said: "A world state can arise and endure only on the solid foundations of a world community. No such community exists. . . . The only hope is to increase the rate of moral progress tremendously...
Many kinds of ore cannot be detected by geophysical instruments. Their reactions to electric currents and other physical tests are too much like the "country rock" around them. But all minerals are soluble in water to some extent. Ground water seeping through the rock may pick up so much of a metallic salt that the metal's presence can be detected by ordinary chemical analysis...
...plants as mineral "indicators" is still a new science. When it is further developed, a prospector will have to know botany as well as geology. For example, if he finds a plant called Amorpha canescens growing where little else grows, he will have a good hint that the rock beneath the roots is worth investigating for lead...