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...goal of science? To blow up the world? If scientists mean what they say-and they generally do-scientific progress is within sight of that nihilistic goal, and may soon succeed in reaching it. Last fortnight Professor John Archibald Wheeler, of Princeton University, almost let this monstrous tiger...
...shell-scarred, balconied Manila ballroom Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime "Tiger of Malaya" and "Beast of Bataan," was on trial for his life. He looked incredibly tame and safe, a froglike man in a green uniform who sat shaven-headed, sleepy-eyed, almost motionless at a long table. Occasionally he smiled. In the ordered courtroom uniformed attorneys shuffled papers, entered objections, laboriously introduced exhibits...
...hand-picked president, big, thick-skinned James Monroe Smith, he spent $13,500,000 on a building plan, blew another $3.5 million a year for such furnishings as professors, a football team, a country club for the students, a highbrow quarterly, and a university mascot-a Bengal tiger in a $12,000 cage...
After his return from China a year ago, Robert W. Prescott, 32, a former Flying Tiger (six Jap planes) and Hump-hopper for the China National Aviation Corp., began writing unsentimental letters to his old buddies. His letters made one point: he was looking for money and talent to build a U.S. counterpart of the C.N.A.C...
...quiet, almost deserted Bridgeport (Conn.) courtroom last week, State's Attorney Lorin W. Willis asked that the case be dismissed. He droned that he had "... a reasonable doubt or more" that Imogene Stevens was guilty of manslaughter. Tiger-eyed Imogene, killer of 19-year-old Navy Seaman Albert Kovacs while she was "in an aura of sex recrimination, beer and window-smashing" (the coroner's report), was free...