Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, Harvard intimidates the non-academic and Cambridge the non-Easterner; the combination discourages any man without exceptional self-confidence from leaving his intellectual home base. Equally restricting is the strong tradition in the Nieman program, which results in enrollment by Fellows in courses that have been popular in previous years. The standard "Nieman courses" at the present time are Merle Fainsod's course on the Soviet Union and Robert McCloskey's on constitutional...
...Oahu-but the old original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...
British researchers measure the angle between the axial triradius and those at the base of the index and little fingers. The normal angle is around 48°; the higher the axial triradius, the larger the angle-around 80° in mongolism, and still greater in some of the other chromosomal abnormalities...
...Cheyenne Mountain, protected against any predictable hazards -from enemy sabotage to a direct hit by a nuclear bomb-the nearly completed COC, opened for press inspection this week, is scheduled to go into full operation in April, replacing the present more vulnerable one located at Ent Air Force Base, 13 miles away...
Early this month, confident that he was safely out of the jurisdiction of nontraditionalist Cardinal Shehan, De Pauw arrived in New York, declaring that it was now the home base for his movement. But, as it quickly turned out, he was not home free. Cardinal Shehan declared that he had not released De Pauw. Bishop Faveri, after thinking the matter over, agreed that the priest was still Baltimore's property - a judgment that the Vatican Secretary of State solemnly affirmed. Last week Shehan bluntly ordered De Pauw to return to Baltimore for a discussion of his future...