Word: kans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because the pyramids held no gold, the Spaniards were uninterested. Innmodern times, droves of tourists journeyed from Mexico City to climb the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. But, though archaeologists long suspected that there was much more to Teotihuacán (pronounced Tay-o-tee-wah-kan), few spades disturbed the city's deep covering of cactus-grown earth...
...Harvard Student Agencies elected officers for next year at its annual meeting yesterday. Bradford K. Perry '64 of Adams House and Reading was elected president. The H.S.A. also chose Virgil L. Archer '65 of Eliot House and Wichita, Kan., treasurer and Beryl Simpson '64 of Moors Hall and Squantum, clerk...
...Malraux sought him out as a cicerone for a tour of India; Lawrence Durrell has pronounced The Serpent a work "by which an age can measure itself"; and E. M. Forster, whose Passage to India remains the classic of Anglo-Indian intellectual commerce, has praised Rao's Kan-thapura (not yet published in the U.S.) as perhaps the best novel in English to come out of India...
...Runners-up: Britain's Mersey Tunnel joining Liverpool and Birkenhead (1934), Japan's Kan-mon Tunnel between the islands of Honshu and Kyushu (1958), both slightly over two miles long...
...last month Rummel ordered that the city's Catholic schools, which enroll almost half of New Orleans' white students, be completely desegregated in September. Privately, many Catholics credit Rummel's stiff stand to the influence of brisk new CoAdjutor Archbishop John Patrick Cody, 54, formerly of Kan sas City, who recently returned to New Orleans from a visit with Pope John...