Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bird Watcher Mamarchev is correct. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, called a snegir, has always been a Russian favorite. In ancient days snegiri, and other birds, were released from their cages as a sign of spring. Orthodox Russians, continuing the tradition, believe that each bird freed on Annunciation Day (April 7) atones for one sin. Tradition dies hard, and even now in the Soviet Union, birds are set free on that...
...reporter of the Father Hesburgh cover story [Feb. 9], I would like to correct what may be a wrong impression left by the statement that among the first acts of Father Hesburgh, as Notre Dame executive vice president, was the replacement of Clarence Manion as dean of the law school. Father Hesburgh became executive vice president of Notre Dame in 1949- In January of 1952, Dean Manion resigned for personal reasons, because of pressure of his private business interests. Father John Cavanaugh, who was then president of Notre Dame, in accepting Dean Manion's resignation, said that "his career...
Soldier & Civilian. Martin was a farm boy from Mil ford, Conn., who signed up for six months' service in July 1776, at the age of 15, in part because all the kids in the neighborhood did (volunteers received $1), but also because "I collected pretty correct ideas of the contest between this country and the mother country." The following spring Martin re-enlisted, and for the next six years fought at New York, Monmouth and Yorktown, and under Generals Washington, Lafayette and Steuben...
...would have starved. Martin was 70 when he wrote his memoirs, but the little volume, bound between two boards with a calf-leather spine, won its author no fame. The current printing, the first in 132 years, is ably annotated by Scholar and Editor George F. Scheer and should correct history's lapse...
...second project, the Municipal Stadium of Florence (built in the early thirties), demonstrated to an international audience a thesis which Nervi has since maintaind: that the correct engineering solution to a difficult structural problem is a precondition not an obstacle to beauty of form, and that the architect, aiming at correct construction alone, can produce...