Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend, onetime papal nuncio in Paris, now Pope John XXIII, who bestowed upon him the diamond-studded collar of the Supreme Order of Christ, the highest Vatican order, which only a dozen people have received since John XXII gave out the first one in 1319. "To find such a figure," glowed the Vatican's Osservatore Romano about De Gaulle, "one would have to go back to Charlemagne...
...with four scout cars, lights dimmed, leading three companies in full battle dress. But this time their coup misfired. A motor-pool major refused to lend his trucks to the cause. Sensing defeat, Moheiddin at 2 a.m. left Khartoum hoping to turn back the advancing troops, but could not find them. By then, news of the plot had gotten out. Easygoing General Abboud had had enough, arrested 18 officers...
Report for $3,000,000. Iselin's demonstration that the little Chance (length, 72 ft.; displacement, 37 tons) could do serious scientific work was useful to Professor Bigelow, who was writing a report on oceanography for the National Academy of Sciences. Relieved to find that very large yearly sums for big vessels were not necessary, the Rockefeller Foundation gave Bigelow $3,000,000 to outfit and endow an oceanographic institute. Bigelow set up his institute in Woods Hole-a small town on a narrow strait ("The Hole") connecting Buzzards Bay with Vineyard Sound. The ocean is always a presence...
...problem is not just academic. If the oceans are to be used for the disposal of radioactive wastes, oceanographers must find stagnant basins where wastes can be dumped with assurance that they will stay out of circulation until their activity has been stilled by time. Warns Iselin: "If you louse up the ocean with atomic waste, you louse it up for thousands of years. The British pump stuff into the Irish Sea, which can take...
High Quality Education. Another overworked term-"high quality education" -defies Fels's definition. "I have had to go beyond The College Handbook to find a definition of this most important and yet puzzling phrase . . . Now, at last, the phrase has been defined by the presidents of Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts . . . 'By high quality education.' say the four presidents, 'is meant a type of education which is equivalent to that which each of our institutions offer...