Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries. And sometimes, given unexpected help, the magazine's circulation reaches far beyond our far-reaching distribution system. For more than three years, 37 readers on an isolated Pacific island have been receiving TIME in, of all things, a tin can. The copies arrive courtesy of William H. Dame, the gift-shop manager on the Matson Lines' S.S. Monterey, who loads a watertight container with recent issues each time his ship passes the volcanic isle on its transpacific trips. Waiting canoeists complete the delivery...
Curious to hear about TIME'S impact on the 600 or so natives of Niuafo'ou (which is generally called Tin Can Island in honor of its un usual mail-delivery system), Dame enclosed a questionnaire with some recent issues. He received a written reply from Kitione Mamata, the island's telegraph operator...
...correspondent, Telegraph Operator Mamata proved irrepressible. When Dame asked him if he would like to see cruise ships call regularly, he almost bubbled over...
...mile subway was tunneled under the city. Trucks roared along the city streets 24 hours a day, dumped thousands of tons of fill from the subway excavation into the river, extended the mud flat that was the He Sainte-Hélène and created the He Notre Dame, which became Expo's major sites. New bridges, a spaghetti pattern of elevated highways, and a theater complex, Place des Arts, were constructed. To provide an upstream system of ice control, Expo masterminds even built a 6,693-ft. ice boom to keep thundering tons of springtime floes from...
Cutting Up the Cow. Many of the nation's colleges that remain segregated by sex are run by Roman Catholic religious orders-and these are abandoning separatism as eagerly as secular schools. Notre Dame, which last year absorbed the drama department of its feminine neighbor, St. Mary's College, is exploring more formal ties-much to the concern of the St. Mary's faculty. One informal survey showed that 40% of St. Mary's teachers do not now meet Notre Dame standards, presumably would suffer in any merger. But Notre Dame seems so intent on affiliation...