Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parched country of northern Mexico's Chihuahua, a prairie wasteland fit for nothing but coyotes, ocelots, wolves and white-faced cattle, thrives a large oasis of green fields, spotless barns and blue-trimmed, gabled cottages. This is the colony of a stolid blond race, strangely contrasting with its dark neighbors-the home of the Mexican Mennonites...
...seems an extraordinarily short space of time. Early in 1954 a Strategic Missiles Evaluation Committee headed by the late great Mathematician John von Neumann developed and extended these breakthroughs. Von Neumann and his associates came out with a feasible technique for designing a lightweight hydrogen device which would indeed fit into the nose cone of an ICBM...
...effective body here at Harvard. The CRIMSON believes it can. Leaving this question aside for the present, however, the situation at hand apparently demands a formal resignation of the erstwhile members of the Council. When this is done, it will then be up to the college, if it sees fit, to organize a new Council under a new constitution. Just what this should contain is a matter to be determined in the future. Until the present corpse is formally interred, it seems hardly dignified to make plans for its successor. From the CRIMSON October...
...program, primarily a reserve measure, draws off a large number of men who noramlly would enlist for three years or be drafted for two, a considerable reduction of men available for the draft could result. Such a reduction possibly could lead to a draft which called almost every physically fit male and even to a lowering of the age at which most men are being taken--currently 22 years...
Died. Josephine (Sherwood) Hull, 71, dumpling-shaped character actress (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, The Solid Gold Cadillac) who modestly tapped fame at 55 ("I'm short and fat and funny, you know, and not easy to fit into a play"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...