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...hewed a narrow gash, 850 miles long and eleven yards wide. Behind it they systematically gouged the life out of a 5,000-yard "dead zone" across which none dared pass, razing forests and farmhouses, smashing villages and tossing 22,000 Germans out of their cottages along the eleventh meridian.* Eight thousand refugees clutching clothes and cooking utensils risked the Vopos' guns and fled to West Germany...
South of Travemünde, the eleventh meridian lances through fir-tufted hills. With Teutonic thoroughness, the Reds have driven a 33-ft. strip of plowland through villages, fields and farmyards. On the highways the new divide is a steel barrier, or a deep-dug ditch; sometimes, it is a sea of soft sand, carefully smoothed so as to catch the footprints of all who try to pass. Heavily armed Vopos glare across the meridian at the outnumbered West German guards. Behind them in the Communist hinterland is silence and fear...
When Professor Joseph Winlock succeeded the second Bond as the Observatory director in 1866, the pressing need for new equipment resulted in the gift of a spectroscope and meridian circle from friends of the College...
Indiana (Indianapolis); President: George M. Dickson, Jr. '22, 3310 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis...
Five-year-old John Muir College* at Pasadena (enrollment: 2,000) has no more than the average quota of campus sin. But to Fred Phelps, 21, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), craggy-faced engineering student from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...