Word: 46th
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Trying to better last year's third place finish, the Harvard math whizzes joined approximately 2000 college students Saturday from 350 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada as part of the 46th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition...
Hired in 1939, after graduating from Columbia University, Jackson, 69, has completed his 46th year at TIME, counting half a decade spent in the field artillery during World War II. His work as an office boy eventually led to a chief copy clerk's position in what was then the TIME picture and production department, where he subsequently rose to layout artist, color editor and, in the 1960s, chief of production. Since 1972 he has been in charge of the magazine's makeup, painstakingly piecing together each week's 100-plus pages of editorial and advertising matter...
...pair of short stories he writes about Shakespeare. They form the opening and closing chapters of Dark Lady. The first, Will and Testament, is a bawdy historical pastiche in which Shakespeare, with Ben Jonson's connivance, manages to insert his name in the King James translation of the 46th Psalm ("Though the mountains shake . . . He cutteth the spear . . ."). The other, The Muse, tells of a scholar from an alternative universe who time-travels to Elizabethan England to verify Shakespeare's authorship of the plays. The scholar meets a bad end, but his copies of the plays fall into...
...wind was actually blowing at ten to 15 knots that day, and visibility was good. Moreover, TIME has learned, the helicopter's mission was something more than routine. Schwab and his passengers were among 250 men from the U.S. 46th Engineering Battalion assigned to enlarge a contra airbase at Aguacate, the secret site of a new 10,000-ft. landing strip that will be capable of serving as a staging area for contra air raids into Nicaragua...
...Representative Howard Krell and his wife Elise had formerly sought refuge from the clamor of 1,000-room hotels by lodging in small, posh inns. But the Sheraton chain has won them over with its "distinguished corporate service." Says Elise Krell: "The express elevator whisks you off to the 46th floor, and you feel you're in heaven...