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Harvard had a brand-new $250,000 chair in anything-at-all on one brand-new condition: a woman had to sit in it. The gift, with string attached, came from United Fruit Co.'s President Samuel Zemurray, no Harvardman himself. A committee of Harvard professors, representing departments from fine arts to physics, solemnly scoured all available corridors of learning for a suitable candidate. They finally found her in England: Dr. Helen Maud Cam, 62, a tweedy, vigorous history don at Cambridge (her specialty: medieval local government). She would be the first woman professor of arts & sciences in Harvard...
Election workers will check off each voter as he turns in his ballot, and will also invade dining rooms to catch the votes of late diners. And there is a strong rumor around Council headquarters that a brand-new set of wooden ballot boxes may be ready for the occasion...
...first day, when Communist Minister of the Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain...
...first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false teeth...
Kuiper was full of scientific eagerness, because Mars rarely comes so close. Also, he had a brand-new supersensitive infrared spectrometer. With this gadget, he hoped to find out, at least, whether the climate on Mars can support the kind of life we have on earth...