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...countless Saturdays. As afternoon wore on and they did not return, their mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls was broadcast on the Los Angeles police network. By Sunday morning a State-wide alarm...
...Langdon found Rogers a prisoner in irons; his enemies had had him arrested on charges of treason and malfeasance. But Langdon's sympathy for his chief vanished when he discovered why Ann was no longer there. He left Rogers to the descending discords of his fate, went in search of Ann. Their marriage, his career in London and his return to America during the Revolution, bring the long tale to its close...
...textbooks of 30 years ago were dry," he writes, "but they were not rotten. Our effort is to learn why biological science has not obtained and maintained its proper place in our schools, and why great biologic truth is so little possessed by our people. We have yet to search the motivation of those several instances of State laws which prohibit the teaching of evolution. It was traditional religion that thus invoked the heavy hand of legislation. Elsewhere, without invoking the law but with its extended and varied influence, traditional religion is now effecting a widespread repression of the teaching...
While the difficult search for bodies began, old Ed Hamilton requested that they be buried forever by dynamiting the towering cliff above the wreck, memorial ized by a skyline marker...
...nonconformist in a country where the Minister of Education declares: "The old idea of Science based on the belief in the supremacy of the abstract intellect is finished. The new Science is sharply differentiated from the conception that its honor lies in the everlasting nature of the search for truth." And now much room for spiritual freedom is there in a land where one of the scholars writes that "The teachings of Marx and Lenin have been incarnated in life. The socialist reconstruction of society is not a distant prospect but a definite plan of great work...