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...that meant that once again Eskimo and Indian children in the Alaska Native Service boarding school in the Panhandle were flown home to their villages in Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range, and to Chukwuktoligamut near the Bering Sea. In the heartland city of Fairbanks (pop. 11,000), fourteen hundred 4-H Club members relieved their mothers of that wintered-in, cabin-fever feeling by piling outside and scurrying to register for their summer activities. Bud Hilton's Thawing Service advertised steam-cleaning service for building exteriors, while out on the Alcan Highway, dust warnings replaced ice-warning signs...
...crane family is composed of fourteen species of tall wading birds. Contrary to popular misconceptions, the heron is not even closely related to the cranes, which are, of course, family Gruidae. The rarest and noblest crane of all is the American whooping crane, order Gruiformes, or simply Grus americana. Like other cranes, the whooping crane prefers life in a marsh, where it can munch away merrily on snails, insects, shoots, and seeds. The whooping crane is distinct from other cranes in that it has a longer neck, a wing span of up to seven feet, and only twenty-nine living...
...produce the national leaders. With a federal system composed of states the size of Germany and France, they don't recruit out of parliament as the British do. In fact, one of India's difficulties is finding state leaders capable of being national figures. We couldn't do all fourteen states, so we picked Rajastan in the North and Madras in the South...
...Perhaps we are unjust," Samuel H. Beer declares, but the Government Department keeps its graduate program small, in order to attract only the best people. Seventy-three graduates participate in the program. All but two of the fourteen courses currently offered, however, have undergraduate members. Nearly 30 per cent of the enrollment in these courses is undergraduate. This percentage of participation has showed little discernible difference between the bright upperclassman and the beginning graduate student. A concentrator in the department for three years who is involved in writing an honors thesis may well be of higher caliber than the first...
...general, the new educational policy will have honors candidates take two years of tutorial for credit and schedule only fourteen formal courses instead of the present fifteen. The greater emphasis placed on tutorial work is an encouraging move; but, with only fourteen courses in which to satisfy distribution requirements and accumulate enough required knowledge for general examinations, the able student considering course reduction might be fearful of dropping a further course...