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...Died. Archer Milton Huntington, 85, multimillionaire founder, with his family, of 13 U.S. museums, including Newport News's Mariners' Museum, Manhattan's Hispanic Society, son of Collis P. H. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific railway; in Bethel, Conn...
...days before, the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. had issued a joint statement saying that the children in private and parochial schools "have the right to benefit" from any aid the Government might extend to the public schools. Glenn L. Archer, Executive Director of Protestants and Other Americans for Separation of Church and State, promptly denounced the statement as "artifice and studied nonsense." Later the 100 delegates from the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. decided to raise a rumble of their own. The entire White House Conference, they said, had been "stacked" against federal aid to education...
Late in the afternoon of May 23, 1430, a Burgundian archer in the service of the English captured a hard-fighting soldier of the King of France and took his prisoner back to camp. Had he captured half the French army, his commanders would have been no happier. Stripped of armor, the soldier was seen to be a handsome, well-knit girl of 18 with short-cropped dark hair. For Jeannette d'Arc of Domrémy, who had given Charles VII his throne and whipped his English enemies with astonishing consistency, there now began one of the classic...
Experimenting on live giraffes was more fun, and harder. Dr. Goetz's original idea was to have an archer pot giraffes with arrows tipped with paralyzing curare, but the giraffes were too skittish, and the arrows did not hit them hard enough to penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around...
...Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 of St. Louis was re-elected secretary...