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Both chapters have fought to remove the national discriminatory clauses for many years. A third Brown fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, succeeded in amending the constitution of its national organization...
...trial run in a current test; if it proves too hard, too easy or too ambiguous, it is revised or dropped. So rigorous is the selection process that only one question in ten reaches an exam in its original form. For example, when students were asked to decide whether "Alpha-particle emission with long half lives is a property peculiar to a) compounds, b) heterogeneous matter, c) the heavier elements, d) the lighter elements or e) uranium," many students interpreted "peculiar" as meaning "strange or unusual." The question (answer: c) the heavier elements) was clarified by replacing "peculiar" with...
Corsair & Caesar. Anti-Castro radio stations came on the air, and some of the broadcasts may have indeed come from inside Cuba. But most of them probably originated no farther distant than "Little Havana" in southwestern Miami. Using code names such as "Tiger," "Corsair," and "Alpha Five," they beamed a 24-hour torrent of chatter, reading off metronome-like numbers in Spanish and repeating cryptic messages: "Caesar is approaching the Colosseum," "The little tree is in the middle of the pasture." More than once, Castro stations broke in angrily. Cried one Castroite at the microphone: "You have no guts...
Chris Reaske, as a farmer, and Thom Babe, the pastor, shone like bright alpha stars in comparison, however, and made it possible for the leads to work. Reaske's storming over the injustice he suffered in a slander case was controlled but believable; unfortunately the incident had little to do with the main plot of the play...
...Isabela de Sagua. Havana radio reported that wounded Russian sailors were taken to a hospital, and Moscow's Izvestia railed that "the strings of the whole open plot against the heroic people of Cuba lead either to the CIA or the Pentagon." In Miami, two exile organizations-Alpha 66. an action-minded band of Cuban professional men, and the Second Front of the Escambray, one of Castro's disillusioned old revolutionary groups-took all the credit. The State Department professed to be embarrassed by it all: "Such raids do not weaken the grip of the Communist regime...