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Last week the National Bureau of Standards was proclaiming that high-frequency waves do reflect from the ionosphere and can get around the earth's curve. The bureau got the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to slant a powerful beam of 49.8 megacycle waves into the air in the direction of its own Radio Laboratory at Sterling, Va. The distance between transmitter and receiver is about 800 miles, so the signal might be expected to come through only in freakish bursts...
...straw vote held at Radcliffe's Cedar Hill Conference in Cabot Hall last night, 39 members voted to keep the Radcliffe News's compulsory subscription dues in full, with only two delegates opposing the recommendation...
...Treetop. At week's end, the couple drove 100 miles into the foothills of snowclad Mount Kenya for a four-day respite at Sagana Lodge, their wedding present from Kenya Colony, built of cedar and encircled by thick forest. They also planned a night's stay at nearby famed Treetops, where wealthy Europeans climb 35 feet into the air into a small, flimsy suite perched on massive figtree branches for a hushed, all-night watch on the unsuspecting elephants, rhinos, monkeys and baboons cavorting below beside a big forest pool. Though a barbed-wire barricade encircling the foot...
Delegates from the Radcliffe student organizations, dormitories, and Administration will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in Cabot Hall for the semi-annual Cedar Hill Conference to discuss such problems as the library, the Freshman Register, and faculty affiliates...
Results of the Cedar Hill conference are recommendations made to various committees, organizations, and the administration rather than permanent resolutions. The meeting provides a clearing house for all undergraduate or college problems...