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...vice-chancellor-from the moment he matriculates them at the start of their university careers until, some three years later, he drones out a Latin benediction, bangs them on the head, and hands them their degrees. But those "up at Bodders" (i.e., studying at Oxford's Corpus Christi College, where he is president) occasionally breakfast with Sir Richard and Lady Livingstone at their baronial lodge. While his listeners polish off jars of honey (he keeps hives because he likes honey and because bees are so important in classical literature) Sir Richard talks "nothing but Plato and Aristotle...
...traveled 800 airline miles (1,150 route miles) north to Cambridge Bay, some 600 more southwest to Fort Norman on the mighty Mackenzie River, and 900 airline miles south in the Mackenzie Valley. It would be comparable to a trip from Tallahassee to Chicago to central Nebraska to Corpus Christi. The region has been visited so infrequently by man that close-up maps of it are liberally sprinkled with such vague comments as "flat country" and "rolling plains with numerous lakes...
Clark entered the Navy in February, 1943 as a lieutenant and has been coaching swimming and football since. He has been stationed at Chapel Hill, N.C., Lakehurst, N.J., and Corpus Christi, Tex, as an instructor in Physical Education...
Burly Thomas B. Tucker of Corpus Christi, Tex. is no braver than anybody else about going to the dentist. Recently, after many postponements, Patient Tucker lowered himself into the chair of Dentist Robert Beauregard Black and said: "I am so nervous you can't touch my teeth without novocaine...
Having given away her mansion and large chunks of her fortune, Clara Driscoll established herself in a giant (twelve bathrooms) penthouse atop Corpus Christi's luxurious Driscoll Hotel. She had built the place in a typically willful gesture, after dressing down the manager of another house where she didn't like the service, and promising him she would put up a hotel of her own, tall enough for her to spit...