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As Registrar, he is official housekeeper for deans and professors, doing the routine jobs that keep a large university going. He assigns rooms for classes and examinations, administers exams and rules of the Faculty. This drab but necessary work is administered with an easy kind of efficiency that quickly wins...
While he was still an adolescent, his father's farm had begun filling orders from all over the world. The New Zealand government sent for 60,000 pupae of the Cinnabar moth, hoping the caterpillars might eat up the country's ragwort weed. The Newmans supplied the pupae...
The Golden Section. Another tremendous problem introduced by CinemaScope is the question of composition-filling the frame with a satisfying picture. Western art since the time of Pythagoras has sanctioned the esthetic mystery of "the Golden Section." Applied to a rectangle, the rule evolves a geometrical figure about five by...
The House of Commons was packed as the Prime Minister rose to speak, and in the visitors' gallery a phalanx of 21 ambassadors waited expectantly. Sir Winston explained that he was filling in for his ailing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who will be away from his desk "for several...
Flaming Hillsides. Now, to disturb its serenity, comes the ragged backwash of war, refugee Laotians and Thais, men from the hills, a few weary, bearded soldiers, the remnant of overtaken outposts, who have escaped over jungle trails or by floating down chutelike rapids on improvised rafts. Behind them come five...