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...response to far-flung dismay over last month's unsettling food episode, the Student Council began a campaign to investigate the University's methods of preparing undergraduate fare. To popularize the drive, the Council decided to devote its annual open meeting to a discussion of the food problem. Dean Bender was invited to answer questions and present the administration's viewpoint, and the entire affair was broadcast over WHRV. On the surface, this open meeting was an excellent idea--but as it was actually handled, it virtually smothered any organized campaign to do a thorough probing job into the University...
Beck, who directed his confused and far-flung battles with consummate generalship, gained himself a magnificently effective ally. He backed a red-faced, ambitious attorney named John Francis Dore for mayor of Seattle. Dore won and said: "As long as I am mayor ... I am going to do all in my power to help the teaming unions...
...older, perhaps a thousand years older, than Cuzco, which dates from about 1100. To this spot, he believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
...spends her days. Last week, carpenters and cleaners were getting the campus ready for fall. But Mother Agatha had other matters on her mind. The order was building a new Navaho school, and she had gone to the order's headquarters outside Philadelphia to check up on the far-flung school system she presides over...
...Benedict Arnold (great-grandfather of Traitor Arnold) of the Rhode Island colony. Down-to-earth archeologists side with James Fenimore Cooper who (in The Red Rover) called it a windmill. The romantic school inclines to Longfellow, whose The Skeleton in Armor refers to the "lofty tower" built by a far-flung Norseman for his "lady's bower...