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...Senator James F. Murray Jr. (TIME, May 27), had vowed revenge on the Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565), which had fiercely supported the Kenny ticket during the election campaign. To pry the news out of City Hall, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell sent over four additional staffers-to no avail. To every question the reporters asked, city officials gave the same answer: "Send Gene Farrell down...
Crushed by a Mountain. Such indifference was of no avail when the mighty Mongol hordes, headed by Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, arrived at the gates of fragrant Hangchou. Before his fierce tribesmen the southern capital fell-crushed, one Chinese historian wrote, as "the Sacred Mountain T'ai would crush an egg." What followed was a galling 100-year reign by the Mongol foreigners...
...course reduction should not be reserved for geniuses who are held back by the course system or for budding scholars who have their life's work in medieval history already planned out; the program should be opened up to greater numbers of relatively undistinguished students who want to avail themselves of its benefits, especially in replacing courses with independent study in junior and senior years. Effectiveness of the program is directly related to the number of students participating...
Since the News Department is always spiriting away our microphones, tape recorders, and other broadcast equipment, careful scheduling is required to assure that this equipment is available at the specified time. But all the foregoing efforts are to no avail if our electronic equipment, most of which is turned on twenty hours a day, is not frequently checked and maintained. It is this sense of immediacy (and the possibility of disaster) which produces the special challenges and rewards, as well as the daily miseries, of radio broadcasting...
...Harvard, Michigan, and Clarkson sextets have all been flown to Colorado at the Broadmoor's expense, and they all are perfectly free to avail themselves of any and all of the recreational facilities that this resort offers...