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Said the letter: "The fact that the Venerable Bede was able to travel to Rome nine times during his life* demonstrates clearly the miserable condition of our time, in which one moves about Europe with the utmost difficulty . . . But . . . B.E.A. truthfully promises to deliver your person at Rome in a mere seven hours . . . and all for the price of LIII libras...
...native American enthusiasm for rescues was tried to the utmost when a flash flood marooned 21-year-old Robert M. Lee on a rock 55 yards from the bank of South Carolina's Columbia Canal. A Navy blimp was flown from Savannah, Ga. to have a go at him and failed. But after twelve hours, two daredevils with an outboard motorboat managed to snake him, safe & sound, out of the torrent of white water...
...Haldane says, has made scientific detachment in this case "much more difficult"; he wryly adds that if Western geneticists actually "held the views attributed to them, they would doubtless deserve severe criticism." But he pleads also for open-mindedness on the part of the West: "It is of the utmost importance that biologists in this country should be able to appreciate both the positive and the negative elements in the views put forward by Lysenko." As a scientist, he begs both sides to assume that one of the two concepts does not necessarily rule out the other, and to work...
...Mothers with crying children should be treated with the utmost courtesy and care . . . Say: 'I am very sorry, Ma'am, but I must ask you to take the little one to the rest room...
...Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department, of charges that he had perjured himself when he told a grand jury...