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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRANCES G. A. MILLAR Alexander...
...amounts of radioactivity that people carry in their bodies from natural causes-e.g., from cosmic rays-is "very much larger" than those derived from H-bomb fallout, replied Dr. Willard Libby, top nuclear chemist and lone scientist member of the Atomic Energy Commission, last week. Furthermore, the amount of radiation produced in humans by the fallout is "less than 1% of the maximum permissible concentration" and there is general agreement that it would take "larger concentrations, perhaps tenfold greater," to produce harmful results. Libby provided a striking example: the present dosage of strontium 90 in the bones of children...
...meeting, to be held at 6 p.m. in the Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T., features a recital by Roland Hayes. Hayes, a well-known tenor, was trained at Fisk University in Nashville, an institution aided by the fund. Alonzo G. Moron, president of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., is also scheduled to deliver an address...
...fellow's sister was sort of sacred when Frank Merriwell went to Yale. There have been changes since. Cramming on summer vacation from Hawley School, A.D. 1935, future Yaleman McGough, G. F. turned to future Yaleman Baxter, C. K. and said: "Now, about this sister of yours, Baxter. Which does she prefer, rape or seduction...
...course of making clear that Louise Baxter prefers seduction, or thinks she does, Novelist Roswell G. Ham Jr. makes clear a lot of other things. In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters. A British boyhood is a Spartan affair which leads the long-suffering young to literary self-defense against their elders; while in the U.S. the young are coddled and it is the elders who must display Spartan fortitude...