Word: macneill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard community. Alison Keith is a real show-stopper as the aging, but still amorous devotee of the pseudo-poet. She has a real talent for comic gesture and routine with just the proper bit of stylization, and wondrous to say, she has a very fine voice. Elizabeth MacNeil, play the title role of Patience, a much-sought-after milkmaid, sings well and liltingly, but her acting seems the weakest among the principals. Perhaps this is just a touch of opening-night fever. Also, she could have been more attractively costumed. Merle Moses, Carol White and Nancy Ryan, among...
Maestro. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Patrolman Ed MacNeil spotted four-year-old Aubrey H. Osborne Jr. driving casually along in a model T Ford, watched openmouthed as Aubrey parked perfectly after being signaled to the curb, wrote out a ticket to the boy's father, who protested: "Why, he's been driving for two years...
...latest American Journal of Science, F. Stearns MacNeil of the U.S. Geological Survey adds up the old clues to get a new theory: the rings were formed on dry land and later sank below the sea. He believes that coral and other sea organisms, growing on a shallow bottom, will build up a flat-topped reef (like many that exist today). In some cases, he says, such reefs were raised above the water, probably by changes of sea level because of ice ages, to become full-fledged islands. Then furious tropical rain went to work on the porous coral, dissolving...
...soft coral of the rim, by alternate solution and recrystallization, was "casehardened" into solid rock that eventually stood in a high wall around most of the island. Then after the once-flat coral reef had eroded into a saucer, MacNeil believes, the sea rose again and flooded the low center. When the sea rose high enough, more coral grew on the high rim, building it up and forming the familiar shape of an atoll...
Geologist MacNeil is prepared to offer two kinds of evidence to support his stand. First, there are actually many islands, standing well above sea level, whose high rims and comparatively low centers could very well have been formed by the process he describes. Second, and even more convincing, the theory has survived a realistic laboratory test. A block of limestone, he reports, sprayed with dilute hydrochloric acid to approximate the effect of long-continued rain, erodes into a shallow saucer with a raised...