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...interested to learn from Saturday's paper (Nov. 8) that "most concentrators in English History and Literature are familiar with Wordsworth's Preludes, the book assigned them this year." In view of this familiarity is it possible to assign instead Eliot's Fourth Quartet? Yours sympathetically, Howard M. Jones Professor of English
...fission process, nuclear reactors produce a gas-Krypton 85-which hangs in the atmosphere. The U.S. can take careful readings of Krypton 85 in the air, subtract what it knows it has put there, subtract what the British have put there, and assign the balance to Russian origin. Making an even less exact calculation, U.S. experts guesstimate that the Russians must have something like 3,000 nuclear weapons. The U.S. may have at least three times that, but it does not make much difference: nuclear parity is achieved when each has enough to destroy the other...
...Commonwealth attorney general, big wheel in the machine of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, was the man who struck the South's first blow. He sent state troopers out of the capital to Norfolk, Charlottesville, Arlington, Prince Edward County, with a tough message warning the school boards not to assign Negroes to white schools under current pressure from federal courts. Was his message a warning, above all, to the Norfolk school board not to carry out its announced intention of assigning 17 Negroes to white schools? Said Almond: "Precisely that...
...Assign his photographer to sneak pictures in the Episcopal Cathedral's Hall of Bishops in Atlanta, where pastors and church ladies gathered for an integrated meeting of the Georgia Council of Churches...
...Defense Secretary. Recognizing this broadened role, the bill enlarges the J.C.S.'s Joint Staff from 210 officers to 400, and, while shying from any idea of a general staff, effectively makes the J.C.S. chairman more powerful than he had ever been by giving him power to assign duties to the Joint Staff. The bill also authorizes the three service chiefs who are J.C.S. members to delegate their service duties-but not responsibilities-to their vice chiefs...