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...plan to invite prominent speakers to the College also won Council approval. Following a suggestion by the Executive Committee, a special committee will be setup to investigate the possibility of inviting outsde speakers to appear before the student body...
...avoid the fog of failure that hangs over Geneva, site of many futile East-West conferences since the end of World War II. The notes named no date; France's Charles de Gaulle had insisted that to suggest a date prior to May 27 would make it appear that the allies were fearfully yielding to a Soviet ultimatum...
...England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Bradford Cannon, Judson G. Randolph and Joseph E. Murray of Boston report that "patients continue to appear with permanent tissue destruction that has resulted from relatively recent radiation treatment of acne, plantar wart, eczema [and] superfluous hair." Examining 165 such cases from their personal files and the records of Massachusetts General Hospital, the doctors starkly document the dangers of unnecessary exposure to irradiation. Items...
Bearing & Distance. VOR/DMET and Decca are radically different. VOR/DMET* gives the distance and direction from each of many individual stations. The navigator can tune to the frequency of a VOR/DMET station and see his compass bearing from that station appear in degrees on a dial. Then he sends a signal to the station, which replies by telling him his distance from it in nautical miles. By plotting the bearing and measuring off this distance on his chart, he can pinpoint his airplane's position and set his course accordingly...
...pity that the prosy piece called "Beauty" had to appear on the first page, for it is clearly the worst thing in the issue. Were it not so devilishly earnest, it could easily be mistaken for parody. It attempts one of those cosmic definitions which one rarely finds outside of undergraduate writing, and which result in embarrassing mediocrity, or worse. Editor (as the author James Robinson signs himself) uses hackneyed and inconsistent metaphor, contradicts himself twice along the way, and even denies the reader the pleasure of a well-turned phrase...