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...City of Durham is in spots an unspoiled medieval museum piece in the heart of the Newcastle coal country. The crowning glory of unspotted Durham is its thousand-year-old cathedral ("half Church of God, half castle 'gainst the Scots") from which warrior monks, centuries ago, issued to battle against marauding Border chieftains. Last week Durham Cathedral's Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington sallied forth to battle again, against a new incursion. This time the enemy was a power plant...
...Durham's City Councillors had approved the plant. As blueprinted, it would rise above the River Wear 300 yards from the city line. Its smokestacks and cooling apparatus would undoubtedly smear the cross-river view of the cathedral's square-towered majesty. Stiffening his sinews, summoning up his blood, Dean Alington cried: "This proposed erection is an outrage. I shall fight it with all my power...
...example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No. 56 has baffled him for 16 years...
Tomorrow the Varsity will travel up to Durham, New Hampshire, to play the University of New Hampshire. The game was transferred from Soldiers Field to Durham because of the fact that Commencement exercises are being held there. Jack Wallace will again take the mound for the Crimson, with the usual lineup backing him up. New Hampshire, incidentally, was beaten last Saturday by Northeastern, whom we had previously whipped by a score...
Since Adam was created from a handful of dust, Eve from one of his ribs, could they have had navels? The question is almost as old as Adam. North Carolina's Congressman Carl Thomas Durham and his House Military Affairs subcommittee are not sure of the answer: they have attacked as Communist a pamphlet containing a cartoon which suggests that Adam & Eve did have navels. The cartoon (TIME, Jan. 31) is in The Races of Mankind (400,000 copies distributed), a 10? popularization of currently accepted scientific views about race which argues that any race of mankind is just...