Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast that makes Dienbienphu shine so brightly begins not many miles away, where a reconnaissance force-which could have been built up into a relief column by air drops-was crawling from Laos in a quarter-hearted pretense at rescue. The contrast sharpens at Hanoi, where General Navarre held his hand; he did not even" try to relieve Dienbienphu, because he feared this might disturb peace negotiations at Geneva. The mood of political Paris favored Navarre's hesitation. Surrounding Paris' attitude was a larger circle of doubt and confusion...
...week in Rome (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), always spoke of feeling a current of air when the healer raised his hands. So Servadio lured the Mago into a laboratory with concealed anemometers. He found to his amazement that when the Mago raised his hands, he displaced a column of air four feet across...
Born in Scranton, Pa., La Gorce has been interested in geography and wildlife since childhood. In 1905 he was writing a column on geography, syndicated to 17 U.S. newspapers, when he was hired by the National Geographic Society at $60 a month as assistant secretary. La Gorce became a recognized authority on fresh and saltwater fish, edited the magazine's famed Book of Fishes. With his wife, a champion high school speller who still reads every word he writes to correct spelling errors, he has visited almost every country in the world except Russia. He plans no changes...
...answering every letter it prints, the CRIMSON implies that its readers cannot judge for themselves the effectiveness of any criticism. We have always thought journalistic code demands that a paper's views be confined to its editorial column. A communications column is established to allow opposing opinions to be expressed unfettered by deprecatory comment. We feel that the CRIMSON can command respect only if its editors keep this code in mind. Warren B. Harshman '56 Evan R. Berlack '56 Eugene B. Mlhaly...
...despite the Bulletin's long and arduous trek away from Soldiers Field and up into the Yard, there are still certain alumni among its subscribers who read only the athletic column, and care only about beating Yale. Happily, however, this group is small, and Bulletin editors find that more and more they can turn away from apologizing for the football team, and devote themselves instead to putting out and improving "the most distinguished alumni magazine" in America