Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxford's debating society, the Oxford Union. In its hall, which is arranged along lines of the House of Commons, future Prime Ministers from William Ewart Gladstone to Harold Macmillan have honed their skills by debating everything from socialism to "Resolved: That in the opinion of this House, Columbus went too far." So respected is the Oxford Union that when in 1933 it resolved "That this House would not fight for King and Country," a storm of controversy swept Britain, and historians as authoritative as Winston Churchill have said that Hitler and Mussolini pursued their plans on the theory...
...Maxine Cornish, wife of a Pittsburg (Kans.) State College history professor, after it became convinced that her eye damage had been brought on by Aralen, a drug she took to ease her arthritis. Last week the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a lower-court ruling that Columbus Housewife Faye Oppenheimer was not entitled to similar damages because she exceeded the drug's recommended dosage...
Born. To Jack Nicklaus, 25, golfing great, last year's leading P.G.A. money winner ($113,284) and this year's Masters champ, and Barbara Jean Bash Nicklaus, 25: their third child, first daughter; in Columbus...
...Edward B. Lamont '65, of Lowell House and Columbus, Ohio, who has received the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship as the senior "who best exemplifies the qualities of excellent leadership and effective support of the best interests of Harvard University...
...THERE, in that high and mountainous land, is the land of God." The date was Sept. 12, 1504, the speaker was Christopher Columbus, and the occasion was his fourth and final departure from the island he discovered in 1492. Columbus named it La Isla Española because it reminded him of Spain. For the Spaniards and French who followed him, for the Indians they slaughtered, for the Negro slaves they imported, and for anyone within a bullet's range last week, Hispaniola was more like hell on earth than the warm, jasmine-scented paradise it might be. Last...