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...Presidium, as well as Russia's two previous cosmonauts, Ma jor Yuri Gagarin and Major Gherman Titov. As young women pelted them with flowers, the "Heavenly Twins," as the So viet press dubbed the cosmonauts, then hugged and embraced their families. The band of the Moscow garrison played the Soviet national anthem, punctuated by a 2 1 -gun salute. On the 20-mile trip from the airport to Red Square. Nikolayev and Popovich stood in a flower-covered Zil convertible and waved bouquets at the crowds that lined the route...
...fort. But pride is Blasi's stand-in for honor, and he demands some elaborate Italian form of face-saving military etiquette. Nonsense, says Niven, holding out for unconditional surrender. While the British major is practicing imaginary golf strokes with a curved tree branch, the entire Italian garrison bolts through the fort's rear gate. Before long, the two commanders get their troops mutually marooned on an island, and mutually ambushed by hostile Africans. The film's humanistic argument, never preachy and never entirely convincing, is that folly brings out the brotherhood...
David D. Oakes '63 has been awarded the Joseph Garrison Parker prize, consisting of books, for the undergraduate with unusual breadth of interest outside the specifically pre-medical courses...
Also: to Patrick S. Nagie III '62, the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize, income from the fund and a silver medal, for a group of poems (honorable mention went to Charles Lowry '65, for a group of poems); aid the Susan Anthony Potter comparative literature prize, to Peter P. Brooks 2G, income from the fund, for thesis entitled "The Rest is Silence: Hamlet as Decadent" (second prize to Renata Addler 2G, for thesis entitled "The problem of Poetic Opacity in Translating 'Die Aufzeichnungen Des Malte Laurids Briggs...
...names in this novel seem to have come from unpretentious rural tomb stones, the thin sandstone kind that a man could carry under one arm : Lizzie Yoh, Theodosia Garrison, Phrany Luck-enbill, Lutie Markle, Jake Loy. Palmyra Scarlett, Seranus Mast. They live in towns like Jacob's and Unionville in Pennsylvania's Vale of Union, or up in the mining patches at Mahanoy near the Tulpehocken Trail. The prose is as homely as a bag of snitz. Some people get their dutch up, others are as meek as Moses. They eat victuals, marry helpmeets, and get around...