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Canada's 6,000,000 French are concentrated in Quebec, whose motto is a meaningful "Je me souviens" (I remember). Originally they meant to establish New France in the New World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form...
...frosh tennis team overcame the absence of newly-elected captain Clarke Kawakami to coast to a 7-2 victory over Brown. The easy win gave the freshman netmen a 3-0 record. Larry Terrell, at first singles, led the way with a 6-0, 7-5 conquest of the Bruins' Malcolm Chester. Pete Abrams, playing in Kawakami's second singles slot, waltzed to a 6-2, 6-0 victory...
...McDonnell is far more interested in the industrial conquest of space than he is in money-making weapons systems that are limited to what he considers to be man kind's more or less petty quarrels...
...America is now a space-faring nation," he says proudly. "This is a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world. The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. And the revelations of cosmography should shrink our egos down to size...
...Nineveh have been renowned since Biblical times. But displays from excavations conducted in the 1950s now reveal much about the little-known Parthians (one of the few ancient people who wore pants), who flourished during the 2nd and 3rd centuries after Christ, withstanding repeated attempts at conquest by Roman legions...