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...Fervent geologists enjoy their lab work as much as their field work. It is theoretically possible to graduate with only five or six outdoors trips, but most majors like to hike over the Auburndale esker or spend an afternoon chopping tillite at Squantum Beach, and call it schoolwork...
Then Professor Walter Hallstein, West Germany's delegate, made a fervent plea for French-German friendship. His words were the kindest heard between Germans and Frenchmen in years. Monnet had difficulty blinking away his tears. For the former brandy salesman from Cognac (and onetime investment banker in Manhattan), it was a great moment. Monnet had worked out the plan that Schuman had presented to the world...
...Senate, worried about what science has wrought, began hearings last week on three bills to support and control rainmakers. Most fervent witness in favor of prompt control was Robert McKinney, chairman of the New Mexico Economic Development Commission. Most of New Mexico, he said, is infested with fly-by-night commercial rainmakers who seed the sky irresponsibly with large amounts of silver iodide. Hired by drought-plagued ranchers and farmers, they are making lots of money, but their clumsy, uncoordinated efforts are producing little rain. Experts have often pointed out that too much silver iodide may prevent rain instead...
These Protestant minorities had many common denominators, whether, like the Waldensians, they originated before the Reformation, or with it, like the Anabaptists. They were small, fervent groups of men & women who tried seriously to return to the simplicity of primitive Christianity. They drew a sharp line between the church and the world, emphasized the mystical, unmediated approach to God, the "priesthood of all believers" and the strict separation of church & state. Sometimes, as with the Baptists and Quakers, the sects themselves surged to sudden brief popularity. But in Europe, their influence was greatest in liberalizing the Protestant state churches...
...before the present freshman class succumbs to rumors blowing up from the river and starts beating its heads at the doors of "the" House with fervent pleas, it is a good time to de-emphasize the differences. Basically, the best criterion for picking a House is the number of friends you have there or expect to have there...