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Horsemen! Racing Fans! Keep Abreast of Racing News While Driving to Florida. The Morning Telegraph May Be Purchased While En Route...
...future. Says Norman A. Geske, acting director of the University of Nebraska Art Galleries: "In our one big show, there is always a rumpus over something that's considered too daring. But on the whole, you can bring almost anything into Lincoln. I think we are abreast of the folks in New York City, and, in fact, some New Yorkers tell me we're ahead of them...
When the conference is over, says Whitman, any nation with a high technology, such as West Germany, will know enough to build an efficient power reactor. "The Russian papers are good," said one U.S. scientist. "The Russians are well abreast of reactor developments, and in some cases they have tried a few tricks of their own." Said another man: "U.S. scientists sorting through these papers have actually sent a few whistles up and down AEC corridors." Probably the papers most useful to the scientists will be of no public interest at all. They will be minute details about obscure matters...
Harvard continued its drive for the title Saturday by easily overpowering a hapless Cornell club, 7 to 1, for its seventh straight victory. This kept the varsity abreast of the rampaging nine from New Haven, which blanked Princeton...
Even without an exchange of persons, which certainly could not be part of the first year of the five-year program, the plan would help to solve problems within India. Village development itself, of course, is already a chief part in the Indian government's plan for coming abreast of the twentieth century, but the university student has had a hard time fitting into programs of village health, irrigation, or literacy. All too often, traditional desire for a white-collar job and his own economic poverty have led him to lose contact with the soil and trouble of village life...