Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheet of patched and worm-eaten vellum seems humdrum. In reality, it is by far the most important cartographic discovery of this century. It is the first map (see below) ever found that shows any part of the Western Hemisphere before the voyage of Columbus...
...residents of North Harvard will carry their flight into the streets Tuesday with a float in the Columbus Day Parade. They have entered a float depicting bull-dovers demolishing their homes. It will consist of a truck carrying a banner saying "North Harvard Street" and towing a house with a bulldozer behind it. Stevan F. Goldin '64-4 said yesterday that hope this will dramatize the issue before all of Boston...
Bars without rich smells but only spilled beer not wiped away, and neon blinking greenly, are no lovelier here than any other place. Urine long gone dead in hall-ways stinks as bad on Columbus Avenue as it does up two blocks from Charles Street or down two blocks from Harvard Square. And women on the corner, winos in the doorways, cops with callous faces and hardened eyes, do not summon up for me, as they do for some poetical white spirits, any vast romantic phantasies of luscious and previously unknown satisfactions...
...United Presbyterian Church commissioned a series of radio spots by Stan Freberg. The Unitarians have acquired a substantial quota of converts over the years with low-keyed ads in magazines that begin: "Are You a Unitarian Without Knowing It?" And long before any of these, the Knights of Columbus began sponsoring magazine ads giving once-over-lightly explanations of Roman Catholic doctrine. BUT WHY THE CANDLES, HOLY WATER AND BEADS? headlines one of their...
...Index Medicus, which goes to 7,000 libraries around the world. A researcher in London, for example, can leaf through the Index, find the citation he wants, and request it of his local librarian, or, if necessary, seek a copy from Bethesda. Chemists benefit from a similar service in Columbus, Ohio, where articles on their specialty are abstracted and indexed by computer; the "express-indexes" are sold by subscription. Bookless Colleges. The next step after bibliographical control is retrieval of information itself. Computers cannot yet actually "read" documents and pull out the relevant parts. They can, however, select copies...