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Factional Peacemaker. Setting foot on New Jersey soil, Joe Martin stepped squarely into the middle of a fratricidal party brawl over the senatorial candidacy of liberal-minded Republican Clifford Case. No man was better suited than Martin to play the part of factional peacemaker. To Case backers, Martin appeared as President Eisenhower's loyal congressional leader. To Case's right-wing enemies, Martin was as close to a conservative "Mr. Republican" as anybody since Bob Taft. He carried the same message to the politicians who chewed cigars in the back seat of his campaign limousine...
...told me to tell you He is sending His Son back to earth ... He has already arrived. He is on American soil...
...says Plank. Equally symptomatic is the "last man" motif, in which all mankind has been annihilated save for one individual-or, more productively, a fertile couple, "Far from being a byproduct of atomic fission," Plank contends, this theme goes back to Greek mythology and "grows from the fertile soil of unconscious drives." Such standard schizophrenic symptoms as delusions of grandeur, of persecution, and of superhuman influence are science-fiction staples...
...Kept German troops from being stationed on French soil, while leaving French forces in Germany...
...Union's famed Geneticist Trofim D. Lysenko, currently out of favor with his bosses, has tried hard-perhaps too hard-for a comeback. At a conference on farm problems, he backed a "new Russian agricultural discovery": plowless farming. Despite Booster Lysenko's proprietary enthusiasm, the technique (loosening soil with a disk harrow instead of plow-turning it over) is old hat to Western experts, has been tried experimentally in various parts of the U.S. for more than a decade...