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...full six hours before the American Export Lines' Exilona made port, Italian divers were busy beneath the waters of Naples harbor looking for mines. Just over their heads navy patrol boats bumbled to & fro; above them, planes of the Italian air force watchfully circled the sky. On the shore, soldiers in tanks and jeeps patrolled the approaches to the waterfront, and Neapolitan police guarded a dock entirely surrounded by barbed wire...
Charles R. Brynteson '50 has won the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England, Provost Buck announced yesterday. Seven other seniors have also been awarded fellowship fro travel and study abroad...
...activities do take place in the House; there are several science clubs, and an economic seminar has just been formed. An outstanding event of the past year was an Eliot House symposium on poetry with Archibald MacLeish and I. A. Richards (both members of the staff) that brought crowds fro all over the University...
...makings of a rather engaging talc. Unfortunately, when much of the story consists of "Chicken Every Sunday" family incidents, the musings of a madman are hardly the appropriate narrative device. Only the excellent and perceptive writing and the author's wide knowledge of the locale rescue the book fro the awkwardness of the plot...
Everybody knows that stars twinkle, but no one is sure what makes them do it. Some scientists say that small irregularities in the air act like tiny lenses and make the stars seem to vibrate to & fro. Others think the twinkling is in the eye. Because the pinpoint star-images can cover only a few of the light-sensitive receptors in the eye's retina at a time, the slightest movement makes the star seem to jump and twinkle as the image moves from one group of receptors to another...