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...jumbled maze of Freshman life comes, once a year, a floating weekend of joy--the Jubilee. However grim the winter, spring must come at last, and traditional accompaniment for robins, seersucker jackets, and young fancies is the giant Yardling extravaganza...
Vicious & Unacceptable. For nine months Russian and U.S. delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.N. Security Council have weaved through a maze of procedural and technical arguments. The U.S. press and public got the idea that the two countries were not far apart on the basic question of whether the atom should be controlled. Behind this U.S. error lay the assumption that Russia, lacking The Bomb now and the industrial capacity to compete with the U.S. in future manufacture of it, would find control preferable to inferiority. But the men who make Kremlin policy, tougher-minded than Americans...
...second new ballet, Errand into the Maze, was more maze than message. Shallow music by Gian-Carlo Menotti did not help to make Martha's journey into the labyrinth (of the heart) and the battle with the Minotaur (Creature of Fear) any more intelligible or rewarding...
...those days, the Charles was just an agglomeration of several smaller streams. Then, only two million years ago, there was a great uplift in the land area followed by a street of glacial ice down from the Arctic. With the gradual recession of the ice, the Charles became a maze of small lakes and streams that were soon afterwards consolidated into one more or less continuous river which cut a new route winding northward in and around obstructions caused by glacial deposits. Today, it pursues a zigzag path from Hopkin to past Cambridge and into Boston Bay, hitting twenty-eight...
...test of a rat's mentality is to put him in an intricate maze half full of water, observe how quickly he finds his way out. After 50 days, the wakeful rats were dumped in such a maze. They swam feverishly, caught on to the maze, got out even faster than normal rats...