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...mayor's answer was much more representative of the earnest, if puzzled, search for democracy that is going on nowadays in rural Japan...
Cambridge police today start a search for some 8 to 12 Square rioters--many of them undergraduates--whose midnight fracas last night resulted in the arrest of one 23-year old College Junior...
Several other fields, discovered since Leduc, were coming into production. No less than 85 drilling rigs were punching the Alberta earth in search of new oil pockets ; but for the steel shortage, there would be twice as many. Also at work were 65 crews with seismographs and gravitometers, picking likely spots for the drillers to "spud in." In 1949, bills for oil exploration would top $20 million...
Budapest-born (1905) Arthur Koestler, one of the best political-novelists of the last decade (Darkness at Noon), is also a stubborn, highly independent thinker-a religious skeptic whose materialism is spiced with idealistic fervor, a radical in search of something to replace his lost faith in Communism. In The Yogi and the Commissar (TIME, June 4, 1945) Koestler tried to find a workable compromise between the pure, but passive life of the sage, and the earthy, but highly active existence of the political reformer. In his new book he stabs at a more ambitious project-"an inclusive theory...
...dick Powell's latest wharf-brawl. As usual, dapper Dick has little or nothing to work with, in this case just his native intelligence and a picture of the culprit facing the other way. For an hilarious moment, the patrons have visions of Powell prowling the globe in search of a man whose pate is familiar, when a clue turns up which sends him scurrying off to Indo-china...