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...painstaking autopsies are performed; each body is carefully examined not only for poisons but for hidden signs of wounds, or for internal evidence of strangulation (which may have been committed without the slightest bruise on the neck). Blood groupings studied include not only the familiar A, B, AB and O, but esoteric fractions which give a total of 50,000 or more possible combinations...
Aerial Parades. As Jungk enters Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, he duly notes beside the gate the Latin motto, Mors Ab Alto-"Death from on high." In place of the real story of SAC's courage and foresight, he sifts out another kind of conclusion. "The heavens," he writes, "have become a vast parade ground on which a general gives his orders with the bark of a sergeant-major...
...forthwith and carried it off to his collection of stuffed pumas and condors-a coup of science roughly comparable to a band of West Point cadets kidnaping the Navy goat on the eve of the service academies' annual football game. As soon as the students heard of the ab duction, they called in the press to claim credit for a find that "may change our knowledge of the history of the Incas in Chile." When skeptical newsmen demanded to see the "mummy," the students led a caravan of cars crosstown to the Museum of Natural History...
Some say that Harvard, to become a truly national school, should allow students who could not bear the expense of a four-year program to finish in three. But this argument fails in two respects. First, the College has a primary obligation to maintain certain standards for its AB degree; and a packed three-year schedule is not conducive to a rounded liberal arts education. Moreover, men who have the aptitude, and have received the secondary school training necessary to telescope the General Education program into one year, can probably share in the mammoth Financial Aid program...
...Source). For Sylvia (written in 1876), Delibes used a 16th century story of a Greek shepherd who falls in love with one of Diana's huntresses. She repulses him until the god Eros steps in. In a scene reminiscent of The Perils of Pauline, a robber khan ab ducts Sylvia, but with the help of the gods, and oblations from peasants, shepherds and huntresses the lovers are united. Sadler's Wells Choreographer Frederick Ashton tied music and story together with some first-rate dance inventions. Every leap and step, gracefully tuned in the 19th century romantic mood, seemed...