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After World War II, says Gartlein, the sunspot cycle turned upward, reaching its peak in the winter of 1948-49. That was a time of troubles in the electrical world, when the sunspots' pesky particles disrupted communications for entire days. Then the cycle turned downward again. In the fall of 1950, the sun showed an almost spotless face for the first time in six years. The bottom of the cycle will be reached in 1954. So, says Dr. Gartlein, the U.S. and its friends (who are more electrical-minded than the Reds) will have the sun's help...
Today, Yale undergraduates still "play the game"-on the field & off-in an atmosphere of calm but unrelenting competition. From the moment a freshman begins to "heel" for the News, the Banner or the Lit, his life becomes a purposeful drive upward-but a drive he must pretend to ignore. "Intense, aren't you?" is the rebuke to overenthusiasm. "The thing to do," says one undergraduate, "is to drift energetically...
Last week, Brannan's own Bureau of Agricultural Economics sang a different tune. Said the bureau: prices of farm land are now the highest in history; farm land jumped 14% between March 1950 and March 1951. "The upward pressure on farm land prices," continued the bureau, "has naturally been strongest in those areas where prospects of higher farm income in 1951 and later appear to be the most promising." In corn-rich Iowa last week, farm land was selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real...
...Shaw's idea of what will happen after the world's present civilization is destroyed-not by the atom bomb (which Shaw thought would not be used), but by an improved version of an old-fashioned poison gas. As Shaw saw it, men will go onward & upward until they learn how to live on air, to get the same sensual pleasure from the pursuit of pure knowledge which their gross fathers got from the pursuit of other things, and finally to take leave of their bodies, becoming a species of intellectual angels. Then, a new race will develop...
...long underwear, loaded his plane with blankets and took off to conquer Washington's sullen, 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier, fourth highest peak in the continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later. "But when I tried to start the engine, it wouldn't catch. Was I embarrassed...