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...desert Arabs does not depend on his height. He won it by learning to speak Arabic fluently, by scrupulously observing their customs and courtesies, by being firm but smiling and unassuming. At meals he squats on his haunches with them, dipping greasy fingers into the communal dish, kusi, a mound of rice and sour milk topped with a roast sheep stuffed with rice and dates...
Last week excited Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
...Dodgers won the next one. Then in the ninth inning of the fourth game came the big moment. There were two men out, and two men on. The Dodgers were trailing 2-1. On the mound was the Yankees' big Bill Bevens, who was just a pitch or so from baseball immortality: in sight of the first no-hitter in World Series history...
Accompanied by Provost Buck, Student Council President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, the Rev, Fred B. Kellog, and Karson, Wallace will leave the Faculty Club and mount the newly-constructed platform to the rear of the pitcher's mound in time to start the program at 8:30 o'clock...
With editor and writer decided on how the story should be handled, Researcher Mary Elizabeth Fremd took over. Unlike her male confreres, she was on familiar, everyday ground. After reading a mound of material on fashion's past, she set out to investigate its present-from Sophie's Fifth Avenue salon to Nettie Rosenstein's ("they call it showroom in this neck of the woods") among the pushcarts on Seventh Avenue. In examining the mechanism that was creating the New Look, she quickly concluded that "I definitely had the Old Look...