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Three University astronomers will fly to Ceylon early next month to study the sun's corona during the longest solar eclipse in over 1200 years. Groups from throughout the United States and foreign countries will converge on the Island for the June 20 eclipse, including several which will conduct a major test of one of the late Albert Einstein's most famous predictions...
After some difficulty, and by unknown means, the faculty discovered that on the night of March 22 one Wainwright Foster had been guilty of conduct toward a certain George English which was "insulting and irritating in both words and actions." Foster, who seemed the aggressor, thereafter challenged English to a duel that same evening. As Mr. English was not one to go off half-cocked, he refused to defend his honor that evening, but promised to do so the next morning if Mr. Foster insisted. Foster was very insistent, and seconds were duly appointed--a Mr. Bullard...
...Bolshevik Army. When the Bolshevik Revolution broke in 1917, Zhukov was back home in his Kaluga village, a sick young dragoon of 21 and, like millions of other Russians, profoundly disillusioned vith the Czar's conduct of the war. To crush active opposition to their rule, the Bolsheviks formed an army out of bands of irregulars, war refugees, peasants, groups of industrial workers and trade unionists. "Even after defeats and retreats," reported Trotsky, the first Bolshevik War Commissar, "the flabby, panicky mob would be transformed in two or three weeks into an efficient fighting force. It needed good commanders...
Today, church schools, which not long ago had to conduct their work under cover, are in open operation (though they still carry the names of Mexican patriots instead of saints' names). There are 34 seminaries training some 2,000 young priests. In Mexico City alone, about 20 new churches have been completed in the past year; 23 more are under construction. (The estimated 500,000 Mexican Protestants are also doing better than they used to; they never met as much government opposition as the Catholics, but their proselytizing ran into sharp hostility, particularly in rural areas.) Mexico...
Raymond A. Bauer, research associate in the Russian Research Center, will conduct the other program, entitled "Shaping the Soviet Mind," on Tuesday evenings. He will discuss, with guests, mass communications in Russia...