Word: chalks
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...vigil, sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Central America (COCA), was staged against a back-drop of eight white crosses, each representing one of the massacre victims. Earlier, COCA planted the crosses in the grass near Widener and wrote in chalk "74,000 dead in El Salvador" on the pavement in front of the steps...
...next time you see a chartreuse irregular quadrangle, show your support and do nothing. Don't poster, don't chalk up the sidewalk, just drop it. An ENOUGH pin can be purchased for the low price of $10. After all, I never have ENOUGH money. And make the world a more colorful, geometric place. Leslie Hakala...
...gull flies, the distance is not great: 21 miles from Cape Gris- Nez in France to the famous white chalk cliffs of Dover on the English side. Yet down the centuries the narrow neck of water separating Britain and France has served as one of Europe's most enduring physical and psychological barriers. Only twice have armies crossed it to invade Britain: the Roman legions in 54 B.C. and the one led by William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066. Secure on their sceptered isle, Britons developed their own proud brand of insularity, summed up as "splendid isolation" during the palmy...
...mainland. On Oct. 30 a team of workers at the face of the French section of the service tunnel that is being bored 131 ft. below the bed of the Channel waited for a thin steel probe, drilled from the British side, to pierce the wall of chalk marl in front of them. The 2-in.-diameter aperture opened by the probe could not be seen at first, but then the British crew sent a blast of compressed air through the hole, blowing out the last crumbs of marl...
...tunnelers were within striking distance of completing the first tunnel under the English Channel. Measurements taken through the probe hole showed the two approaches were out of line by a horizontal distance of only 20 in. after huge boring machines had chewed their way through 24 miles of undersea chalk. Said a spokesman for TransManche Link, the Anglo-French consortium responsible for design and construction: "It was like throwing out a line to the moon and getting within a 10-ft. circle." The remaining 325 or so feet of chalk separating the two tunnels will now be excavated...