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...freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are invited to the CRIMSON building, 14 Plympton St., at 7:30 p.m., to talk with the editors, inspect the newsroom and printing facilities, and discuss the details of the eight-week competition. Beer will be served...
Until last spring, South Africa's Nationalist government considered Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg Richard Ambrose Reeves just another irritating and ineffective critic. But when the police guns mowed down hundreds of unarmed blacks at Sharpeville in March, Bishop Reeves rushed to the hospital to interview the wounded and inspect the dead, publicly announced he had evidence that many had been shot in the back, even accused the cops of using dumdum bullets. The government decided that Bishop Reeves had 'become a threat to its security. Tipped off that his arrest was imminent, the bishop slipped away to England...
Along its 10,000 miles of mainline track raced Pennsylvania locomotives pulling empty cars to flake the rust off the rails. Safety crews hustled to inspect thousands of switches. After a twelve-day shutdown, the Pennsylvania Railroad-the nation's biggest freight and passenger line-last week started to roll again...
...producer," says Giniger happily, and he is obviously his own best pressagent. He discourages authors and agents. The firm invents most of its subjects, then cuts its risk with businesslike efficiency: it sends out form letters asking prospective customers if they would like to inspect a new book for a 30-day, money-back trial. If enough patrons of literature bite. Giniger commissions a ghost (often British, for lower fee and better prose) to write the book. If not, the idea is killed, polite regrets are issued to the folks...
...from his first silence about the Nobel Prize, he now sees it as a victory in a battle in which he "fought alone'' while "my adversaries, that is, the other candidates, had great forces." In this selection from his work, U.S. readers now have a chance to inspect 100 of the prize-winning poems, in the original and in a painstaking translation. Most readers will still be left wondering about the Nobel Prize Committee's decision...