Word: americae
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...cost of slightly over $1 million, provided by the Program for Harvard College, the Division of Modern Languages acquired a language center comparable to any in America. "There had been some pressure to tear the building down," Harry T. Levin, chairman of the Division, explains. "However, by saving the shell and reconstructing the entire interior, rather than building a whole new structure the University saved at least $800,000"--an important factor in this period of continually rising costs. Its convenient location on the main pathway between the Houses and the Yard close to Widener helped clinch the decision...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4--A Mercury space capsule was hurled 35,000 feet high today by a Little Joe rocket, moving America open step nearer getting a man into space...
...other side of the moon. We're not ready, he said, because we don't yet known enough about the dark side of ourselves. Bearing in mind also the item from Ripley's Believe It Or Not that the Man in the Moon is upside down in South America, the Administration should give Servareid's idea serious consideration...
...first four, based on deposits: Bank of America, Chase Manhattan Bank, First National City Bank of New York, Chemical Bank New York Trust...
Like other writers struck by early success, Novelist Norman Mailer, 36, is fond of discussing his talent, often in terms that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from...