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...faint revival of discussion on non-Honors tutorial is all to the good. Ever since the CEP drew up the honors program two years ago and left plans for non-Honors tutorial in tantalizing limbo, discussion on the latter has tended to degenerate into fruitless procrastination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hope for Non-Honors | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...made imitation of the Van Allen radiation belts. This effect was expected and was duly observed by U.S. scientists. But a team of the Army's Fort Monmouth men, led by Dr. Hans A. Bomke, was quietly watching for subtler effects. To pick up the faint traces they were looking for, they had to establish a widespread network of magnetometers, enlisted the help of Sweden, Iceland and Portugal. At each site, a huge antenna was laid out by running a single wire along the ground in a loop 50 miles in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Around the Earth | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Early in life, Stu manifested the luck that was to stay with him over the years. He totally escaped the eye affliction, deterioration of the retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he fell two stories to the concrete foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Everybody's No. 2 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

With Fitzgerald and Benjamin out, Mark Mullin and Ralph Perry will carry the Crimson's faint hopes today. Mullin ran a good 25:41 for five miles in taking sixth against Yale and Princeton last week, but he must do even better to figure in the Heps. The steady Perry finished eighth a week ago, and he will probably show up among the top dozen finishers again this afternoon...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harriers to Run in Heptagonals | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

...Communist China and the "Republic of Taiwan" does not present devastatingly new policy or argument. What is unusual is that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should raise the issue of recognition without jeopardizing the political future of any "recognition" advocates. Senator Fulbright, who seemed to be praising with faint damns, called the private agency's report "thought-provoking," adding, "I do not believe that the United States should recognize Communist China at the present time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ostrich Rears Its Head | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

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