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...Philosophy, if not the root of science, is at least the soil in which it grows," Alexandre Koyre, eminent historian of science, maintained at the annual Horblitt lecture last night. To substancetiate this view he analyzed Newton's philosophical objections to Cartesian science...
Eighteen months have passed since Red Chinese troops occupied 12,000 square miles of northern Indian soil. The troops are still there. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been heard to complain, but has done little else. Last week, as the Indian Parliament's new session got under way, pent-up tempers exploded. "Have we grown so soft?" demanded Asoka Mehta, leader of the Praja Socialist Party. "Surely the brave soldiers of India have never said they would not march." Cries of "cold feet" rang out, and one M.P. demanded that Nehru "apologize" to the nation...
...vast bulk strength, tempting, un, and defenseless, an empty ry, a sullen and torpid nation, on the throne, factions on the council, ministers who served only themselves, and soldiers who were terrible only to their countrymen, Men looked to France, and saw a large and compact territory, a rich soil, a central situation...an active and ambitious prince, in the flower of his age, surrounded by generals of unrivaled skill...
Hugging the Mexican border 225 miles southeast of Los Angeles lies California's Imperial Valley, a sprawling 600,000-acre oasis of mineral-rich soil and year-round sun, surrounded by the trackless wastes of the Colorado Desert. Irrigated by aqueducts from the Colorado River, this below-sea-level island in the desert yields $150 million-a-year worth of diversified agricultural products ranging from Syrian plumcots to Pakistani grapes, has nurtured a breed of rugged, Stetson-crowned farm millionaires. Last week, in a melee of millionaires, deputy sheriffs, pickets and Mexican braceros, labor violence reminiscent of the brawling...
ILLEGAL STOCK TRADING was charged against Universal Controls President Morris Mac Schwebel. Federal grand jury indicted Schwebel on charge of conspiring to illegally sell-by phony earnings claims-unregistered Soil Builders International stocks and unregistered stock in Basic Atomics...