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...idea of building a tunnel beneath the waters of the English Channel is one which has been debated back and forth between London and Paris for at least a century and a half. But up until a short while ago it seemed an attractive one only to imaginative men with eccentric illusions. Now it appears that after a long and somewhat comical history of failures and brief but unsuccessful forays under the sea, the tunnel may at last find its way from the Cliffs of Dover to the outskirts of Calais...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Frank P. Davidson | 5/23/1962 | See Source »

...British farm, and finally returned to Cambridge and Harvard Law School. A member of Phi Beta Kappa. Davidson has since been engaged in an international law practice and is, at the same time, President of Technical Studies, Inc., which owns twenty-five per cent of the international channel tunnel firm...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Frank P. Davidson | 5/23/1962 | See Source »

...regime. Nevertheless, the meaning of the young Turks' impatience was plain. Warns President Gursel earnestly: "For six months not a single issue of importance has been dealt with. The present situation cannot continue indefinitely. Either the nation's affairs will be led into a rational channel, or other means will be sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: Dangerous Deadlock | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...network TV program, championing the case for legalized abortion, will not be broadcast by WHDH, Boston's local CBS channel. In announcing its decision not to carry the episode of the weekly "Defenders" series, WHDH called it "needlessly offensive to a substantial segment of the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TV Drops Show About Abortion | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Having already etched a redoubtable academic reputation for his monographs on marsupial embryology and anatomy, Australian-born Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, 76, closeted himself at the English Channel resort of Hove to finish off a book designed to "set the record straight" on a more complex mammal: his late son Errol. While insisting that "the Errol the public knew-the hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer-was a legend created by himself for publicity," the retired Belfast University professor (who recently celebrated his 54th wedding anniversary) conceded that his boy was not "perfect by any means. But neither was he wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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