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...mute beasts is ridiculous enough to make most non-Hearst readers laugh at the anti-vivisectionists. They should. Two years ago the anti-vivisectionists paraded a steady stream of pet-owners to the State House for hearings on the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...
There was one notable absentee. Paul Douglas of Illinois kept his floor appearances to a minimum, closeted himself in his cluttered Senate office and worked late into the night. He gulped carbonated water, puffed at denicotinized cigarettes and riffled through a stack of history books and charts. Four stenographers worked in relays to help him. For a week he wrote and rewrote, revised and polished what he wanted...
...Stack service and circulation will no longer exist in Widener Saturday afternoons although students with permission may still use the stacks. Both the archives and the official catalogue will also be closed at that time...
...Thomas had painstakingly collected his orchestra himself after World War II-"because there was no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation." After five years of drilling and polishing, he was confident that the Royal Philharmonic was one that he could be proud to stack against any in the world...
...Dresden last week a youthful hot combo was interrupted in mid-rehearsal and threatened with dire consequences if caught playing Western jazz a second time. In Cottbus, Communist police confiscated a stack of Western dance records and sent their owners to jail for two days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering...