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...thousands of Scottish Highlanders who came out to Canada in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, the northern end of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island looked like home. They searched no farther. To Cape Breton's coves, its evergreen hills and misty glens, they transplanted names like Beinn Bhreagh. Lochaber, Tantallon and Skir Dhu. The Macdonalds, MacIntoshes, MacLeods, and members of many another Scottish clan settled down to raise sheep, fish for cod and till the soil...
...last week the roar of ice-littered water had died away along most of Alaska's great rivers; the Tanana, the Yukon, the Porcupine, the Kuskokwim foamed ice-free through the hundreds of miles of evergreen wilderness. Even north of "the Circle" the ground had thawed. Hundreds of thousands of obliging salmon ran in Alaska's larch-green coastal waters. The Arctic ice pack would soon move sullenly offshore. The sun stayed in the skies at night, and green things burst into leaf and blossom with hothouse frenzy. Alaska's short, violent summer had begun...
...secretaries, home-town papers, temporary offices and all the comforts of a good club. Attached to the House is an aggressive, canny staff of trade promoters who last year helped 2,688 U.S. and foreign traders find new business. Sample deal: International House showed Southern Coach Manufacturing Co. of Evergreen, Ala., which had never exported, how to sell $750,000 worth of buses to Colombia and Argentina. As a result of the program, the tonnage handled at New Orleans this year has already edged up 5% over last year...
Times were hard in Nanking, but the Fred Gruins had a fat goose (no turkeys available) and Fred Jr., aged five, was all set to chop down a little evergreen growing inside the bamboo fence of the Gruin's ten-mow (3⅓-acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray, his wife "Freddie," and their three children, looked forward to being in their new house on Columbia Road. Said Gray: "We'll hang up the sang chi sheng (mistletoe) and the mao erh to tzu (cat's ears or thorn of holly) and startle passing ricksha...
...throngs at Memorial Hall will be only a foretaste of what a bustling, overcrowded Harvard must face during the next few years. 2000 incoming freshmen and returning veterans will find queues, chowlines and packed classrooms as much a part of undergraduate life as the waning tutorial system and the evergreen Harvard tradition of individual development. How the individual is to be developed, how he is to benefit from the peculiar combination of intellectual wealth and academic freedom that are the treasures of the College, is a far greater problem than it was in the "normal" years. At the point where...