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...flowery world of commencement orators ("Commencement is not an end, but a beginning"), there are always dragons to be slain. Last week was no exception. The orators slew Senator McCarthy dozens of times; they jabbed at the Atom, slashed at the Soviet, spoke well of freedom-academic and otherwise. But at Pennsylvania State College, one man took on a dragon that seemed to him more dangerous than all the rest. Said Clarence Manion, lawyer and former dean of Notre Dame's College...
Resentment on the part of New Haven residents has often erupted in mugging of students. Last year, a slew of such muggings occurred. In October, five men attacked a graduate student, kicking him in the stomach. In November, six boys beat a Yale junior to the ground. Later the same month, eight boys in an automobile followed, spat on, and attacked another junior. Early this fall, a Yale Law student was beaten by three men. In almost every case, the police caught and fined the offenders...
Many of the Carnegie exhibitors take the opposite approach, hastily dropping their brushes as soon as their work begins to resemble something. But in abstract art the effect's the thing, not the method-and, as the 39th Carnegie proves, a slew of puzzling, annoying, innocuous or pleasing effects can be achieved. Eight of the best are shown on the following two pages...
...make a sermon of it? Why waste breath? Exactly in the way they'd planned his death They fell on him and slew him, two to one. Then said the first of them when this was done, 'Now for a drink. Sit down and let's be merry. For later on there'll be the corpse to bury.' And, so it happened, reaching for a sup He took a bottle full of poison up And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also, and they perished both...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N. J. lives a mechanical mouse named Theseus, the creature of Dr. Claude Shannon, Bell computer authority. It was named after the Greek mythological hero who went into the Cretan labyrinth and slew the Minotaur. But Theseus Mouse is cleverer than Theseus the Greek, who could not trust his memory but had to unwind a ball of string to guide him out of the labyrinth...