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...after running down a small child with his raceabout (TIME, Feb. 9)-had "caused embarrassment to the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would be "confined to the limits of the four walls." Instead of court-martial, the Navy Department then decided to administer this small slice of humble pie: ''You are informed . . . that the Navy Department cannot express too clearly its disapproval of the conduct of any officer of the naval establishment in making remarks which tend to embarrass the international relations of the Government. Such action on the part of an officer...
...more important than the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). The central system controls the body's skeletal movements. When a person throws out his arms as he is about to fall, his brain is working. The muscles involved are striped muscles. (A steak is a slice of striped muscle.) When his stomach churns, smooth muscle is working. (Sausage casing is smooth muscle.) The heart is peculiar in this respect. Its muscle is half way between the striped and smooth kinds. It is connected by the vegetative nervous system with only smooth-muscled organs. These all function automatically...
...Francis Adams, and great-great-great-granddaughter of President John Adams. She danced the first dance with Host Allan in the same East Room where her great-great-great-grandmother Abigail used to dry the family wash. As a mark of favor at supper she was served the first slice of cake from a cake plate used in the White House by the Adamses. "Home, Sweet Home'' came...
Heretofore, to examine cells microscopically it has been necessary to put a thin slice of tissue on a glass slide. The cells are either dead in the beginning, else die during the handling. Or it is possible to grow the cells in "tissue cultures," as Dr. Alexis Carrel has for years grown embryonic chicken tissue at the Rockefeller Institute. This in vitro method, however, fails to give an exactly truthful picture of all cell growth...
...discussion regarding the Legion's misconduct during the convention. I think it should be remembered that the Legion, as the survivors of a drafted army, are a representative slice of American citizenry, and any large group tends to misbehave when freed from restraining influences. That the legionnaires, in their capacity as military men, were accorded police protection and toleration of violations of the law is to be deplored...