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Kent Murray, fourth child of a New Canaan, Conn. insurance agent (who doubles nights and weekends as a jazz drummer), had a normal birth but looked alarmingly blue and immediately needed oxygen. Still blue when he went home, he got bluer when he cried. Kent grew normally, but whenever he tried to play tag with other youngsters, he turned blue and gasped for breath. When he was five, doctors at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital found that his heart had only one ventricle (lower chamber). The result was that freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs was mixed in this...
...opinion that should be debated the most thoughtfully is Keats's basic premise: that in education the customers are always right-or at least have the right to get exactly what they ask for. He cites New Canaan, Conn, as a community in which the grand-jury system' worked well, produced better schools and better scholars. But in Houston recently, a band of diehard lady patriots called Minute Women succeeded in browbeating a publisher into reprinting an eighth-grade geography and omitting references to the U.N. Under Keats's grand-jury rules, they were as justified...
...Harvard Advocate yesterday announced election of its officers for 1958. President is Peter P. Brooks '59 of Eliot House and New Canaan, Conn.; Secretary, William Wertenbaker '59 of Charlottesville, Va. and Eliot House; Treasurer, Peter A. Tcherepnin '60 of Lowell House and Chicago, III. Other officers are Business Manager, Robert M. Hoen '59; Circulation Manager, Richard B. Fisher '59; Bacchus, Nicholas Wolf '60; and Art Editor, Edgar M. de Bresson...
...hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this, it is thought, touched off an internal explosion of petroleum gas which in turn sent tons of flaming asphalt, marl, salt and limestone high into the air to descend on the helpless cities as brimstone and fire out of heaven...
Later, grown to manhood, Abraham migrated to Canaan, on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, with his childless wife Sarah, his brother's son Lot, his slaves and herds. The land he found was anything but the primitive pastoral society Bible scholars assumed until recently. The excavation of the ancient cities of Ugarit and Mari in the 1930s shows a culture already old in Abraham's day, which was celebrated for its music and art, bronze work and historical and religious epics. Diplomatic and commercial documents preserved on clay tablets indicate that Abraham, a rich man now, must...