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Spelling errors crop up yearly. One undergraduate in statistics, obviously concentrating too heavily in science, wrote of a "tetrachloric correlation." And a Soc Rel section man saw a reference--probably by a boy from Michigan--to a "Deus ex mackinaw." Or perhaps he lived near the girl who wrote of ancient Troy's Scalamander River...
...poor of good U.S. educational institutions. Carleton's top professors are paid meagerly, its physics and biology facilities are old and cramped, its students need dormitories, and its only stage is a makeshift affair in a 110-seat basement theater. To mend the bare spots in its academic Mackinaw, Carleton has set itself an enormous task for so small a college: to raise $10 million in the next four years...
...schuddered, but the fellow in the blue mackinaw crowding behind him chuckled gutturally. "That's the greatest, isn't it?" Vag condescendingly smiled his assent. Some people like that kind of verse, he thought, and moved on down the rack. A bright red card attracted him. "Because you're mine. . ."it read. Ruefully, Vag opened it. Ah, well. . . "and I am thine, life is perfect, Valentine." Maybe the fellow in the blue coat will like...
...more than a century-while Portland (pop. 373,628) grew bigger than its namesake-few people bothered to wonder whether or not it had been misnamed. Last week, however, Portland Author Stewart (Holy Old Mackinaw, Ethan Allen, Murder Out Yonder) Holbrook, a transplanted Vermonter himself, was suggesting that Portland should be Portland no longer. Backed by a committee of six, he petitioned the city council to let Portlanders vote on changing the city's name in a special election this autumn...
Those South American trout mentioned in your June 2 story could be used for bait to catch some Priest Lake (Idaho) Mackinaw trout. One recent catch weighed...