Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When all the painfully gathered data are digested and assembled, they will give a cross section of the Antarctic Continent, which is believed to be a great saucer of rock with a center near the Pole pressed down by the weight of ice that it carries. The thickness of the icecap will tell how much water is locked up in it, and how high the oceans stood during geological ages when the earth's Poles were ice-free. Perhaps the precious data brought back by the Fuchs expedition will explain the seams of coal in Antarctic mountains. Coal...
...Crimson mile relay team composed of Landau, Dave Brahms, Pat Liles, and Lee Barnes is pitted against runners from Yale and Georgetown. A two-mile quartet, including Bill Thompson, captain Pete Reider, Art Cohn, and Ed Martin will meet Yale and Holy Cross. McCurdy thinks that the latter unit is "the best two-mile relay team we've had here in quite a long time...
...never-ending colonial demands for independence, few things have so touched and intrigued Britons as the political yearning of Malta, the rocky little Mediterranean isle whose 320,000 inhabitants earned a collective George Cross for heroism under Axis air assault during World War II. Instead of independence, the Maltese under the leadership of fiery, 41-year-old Prime Minister Dom (for Dominic) Mintoff have asked for complete integration into the United Kingdom and the right to send three M.P.s to Britain's House of Commons in London...
...rally. Prohibited by law from parading across holy ground, the procession stops at the churchyard fence-but not necessarily the propaganda. Not long ago the priest of Ruina Ferrarese (pop. 800) found that at least one gravestone in the cemetery behind his tiny church was decorated not with a cross but with hammer and sickle...
Admission, because the privilege of attending is conferred on fewer than apply, is of necessity a discriminatory process. The College chooses among applicants according to a number of standards. Aside from the criteria of academic and personal fitness for Harvard life, the admissions committee seeks a cultural cross-section which will enrich the University. Thus the great cry for diversity. In order to fulfill this ideal, the office must choose a greater percentage of those who apply from minority groups than from the more homogeneous mass, other factors being equal. This quest for diversity is hampered when means of recognizing...