Word: duke
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Each night, for 16 nights starting last Wednesday, a chart is locked in a laboratory at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, containing extra-sensory symbols arranged in five rows of five each. The symbols are a star, square, circle, cross and wavy line; and five of each, placed in a random fashion, are used in every chart...
Here at the University, the 40 students are expected to pause during the evening and jot down on a penny postcard their guess as to the arrangement of the symbols being used that night. The postcard in mailed off to Duke the next...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
Other promising tackles and guards include tall Tom Guthrie, 230-pound transfer from Notre Dame who has been ordered to take it easy until fully recovered from oil burns he suffered during the summer; Duke Sedgwick, whose father and grandfather both played football for the Crimson; Bill Rosenau, a member of last year's Freshman team; and Gordon Stensrud, Rocky Stone, Dick Guidera, Skip Garvey, Pete Coyne, and Henry Dunker...
...setting, the plot, and the words were familiar enough to Londoners. For it was the same bawdy Beggar's Opera that John Gay had written more than two centuries ago. Unlike some others who had tinkered with Gay's libretto (Frederic Austin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington), Britten had followed it carefully, keeping to the squalor and backside-slapping of 18th Century London. The music, in its latest disguise, was something else again...