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...Senate, worried about what science has wrought, began hearings last week on three bills to support and control rainmakers. Most fervent witness in favor of prompt control was Robert McKinney, chairman of the New Mexico Economic Development Commission. Most of New Mexico, he said, is infested with fly-by-night commercial rainmakers who seed the sky irresponsibly with large amounts of silver iodide. Hired by drought-plagued ranchers and farmers, they are making lots of money, but their clumsy, uncoordinated efforts are producing little rain. Experts have often pointed out that too much silver iodide may prevent rain instead...
Anyone dogged enough to read through the entire "Press" in the next column will find that The Dartmouth is pretty wrought up about the condition of its college. From this distance, it is hard to tell how dismal the situation is up in Hanover; neon teeth, not being quite so bright as atomic explosions, have caused no appreciable glow on the northeast horizon...
Along the Corridors. Inside man himself, the path of the disease has been pretty well traced from its entrance through the nose or throat along the corridors of the central nervous system. Most researchers now believe that polio's havoc is wrought entirely through damage or destruction of the nerves alone. Despite millions spent in searching for a chemical cure, no way has yet been found to halt the disease, once it has started its march through the body. But new tricks in physiotherapy, orthopedic surgery, such rehabilitation gadgets as Barach's coughing lung, and more & more research...
Fling and consequences form the action of The Pencil of God, an engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting...
Shaw takes the visitor on a 59-picture tour of Ayot (rhymes, according to Shaw, with say it). Beginning at his own gateway, over which the local blacksmith has wrought an iron notice, "Shaw's Corner," he moves on to the churchyard which first drew him to Ayot. Two world wars have intervened and he notes another tombstone...