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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1961
Page
9
A vivid travel sketch contrasts London and Rome, noting the Eternal City’s daytime gaiety and nighttime illumination. The piece dwells on Rome’s theatrical charm and hints at a wish to travel further to Naples, capturing a World Crisis era mood.
A Cedar Rapids feature recounts local children letters to Santa listing practical desires and family notes. The pieces reveal missing dads, money for outings, horse requests, foreign butterfly books, and concerns about being good, with playful typos and earnest sentiment.
The Niagara Falls AP report states the cement used in the Niagara power project could construct a 24 foot wide highway from New York City to Jacksonville Florida.
AP reports at the University of Chicago two views on human lifespan. Szilard argues death is inherited from genetic faults, with aging hits reaching a fixed rate and a balance threshold causing death. Sacher counters that both genetics and environment cause fluctuations, making time of death uncertain due to chance events.
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, 93, renowned Negro historian and sociologist, has joined the Communist party per party headquarters in New York. A co founder of the NAACP, he split with the group long ago and has supported left wing causes since 1948. A spokesman said he sent his membership application on October 1 from his New York home while he was in Ghana heading a Ghana secretariat planning a new Negro encyclopedia.
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