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...success of his latest song was icing on the cake for Meredith Willson last week. The big event was the celebration of his 20th anniversary with NBC as probably the most durable composer-conductor in radio. Tallulah saluted him over the air with a sub-contralto speech, and gave him a plaque. His publishers exhorted disc jockeys throughout the U.S. to make it "May-the-Good-Lord-Bless-and-Keep-You" Week...
...since the dust storms blew across Kansas in 1936 have winter wheat prospects looked so bad. In some Kansas counties last week, 80% of the 1951 crops had been abandoned because of drought, sub-zero winter temperatures and insects. Across the rest of the U.S. wheat belt, prospects were almost as poor: one expert predicted a 624,970,000-bushel crop, 21% less than the ten-year average, and 18% less than last year. Because of the estimated big carryover of 425 million bushels as of July 1, there will be plenty of wheat this year for bread, breakfast cereals...
...urge seems to be produced by a conscious desire to learn, a sub-conscious desire to mature, and an unconscious desire to double-cross the double standard. It leads the Wellesley woman to take herself and her role in life pretty seriously. It led a graduate at a recent New York meeting of alumnae to proclaim that in the troubled world today "Wellesley must take the leadership...
...were eventually able by force to destroy the present power of the Chinese Communist regime, what would take its place? I doubt if anyone but Chiang Kai-shek believes that he could form a government to take over and administer again the four hundred millions of the Chinese sub-continent. The strength of the Chinese Communist regime, which is now being manifested against us, has not been built in a day but over a whole generation of activity in organizing the peasantry in the populous countryside...
First Seconds. A few hundred seconds after the great event, say Alpher & Herman, when the universe was filled with a gas made of protons, neutrons and smaller sub-atomic particles, its temperature was about i billion degrees, and through it shot violent gamma rays. At this point, the collisions among the particles and gamma rays were too powerful to allow any of the particles to join together into atomic nuclei...