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...landed her back in the headlines: she had invited to the palace a crackpot from California who numbered among his friends men from Mars, Venus and other solar-system suburbs. Both court and Cabinet pleaded, but the Queen would not be budged. "A hostess," said she in refusing to cancel the audience, "cannot slam the door in the face of her guests...
Both the heavies and lightweights were forced to cancel two-thirds of the normal number of days spent on the river before vacation. The result of the late winter ice, the fifteen extra days in the tank have set the crews two weeks behind the majority of their opponents...
...lightweights enter today's race with one compensation. Cornell has also been forced to cancel two weeks of river work, and is consequently at a comparable stage of development. Like all un-untried freshmen opponents, Cornell and M.I.T. are unknown quantities...
...been interested in NSA as an undergraduate, but only mildly active"), and at the NSA congress in August was elected international vice president, "really a full time job." He tried keeping tutorial through the fall but found the combination impossible. "I remember calling once from Chicago to cancel a meeting." And anyway Sigmund wanted to go to South Africa and write a report on segregation in the universities there. "I got as far as Europe, but the South African government refused me a visa so the trip has to be scrapped...
...danger that Soviet progress in antiaircraft missiles will cancel out SAC's power has been largely overcome by U.S. progress in air-to-ground missiles, which will enable bombers to fire at targets hundreds of miles away. Most promising: the 500-mile nuclear Hound Dog. Under development are new Hound Dog versions with ranges up to 1,000 miles...