People: Notions In Motion

As far as he is concerned, famed Chemist Harold C. Urey told University of Miami students, his own study of the universe "leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life."

All this chatter about interplanetary travel began to irritate Novelist-Columnist J. B. Priestley, who wrote in the London News Chronicle: "The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and...

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