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Otherwise known as a post-graduate, Rand went to Northfield-Mount Hermon (Mount Hermon in the good old days) the year after his graduation from Lincoln-Sudbury (Lincoln Suds any day) for a simple reason--to get into college...
...Farther north, in Oregon, Idaho and Washington, the drought's full impact is not expected until summertime, when the current lack of snowpack in the mountains is almost certain to lead to a water crisis. The usual snowpack for this season at the 6,000-foot level on Mount Hood is 143 inches; after a heavy snow last week it had risen to only 21 inches. It is the snowpack that replenishes streams, reservoirs and irrigation ditches, and with only a modest runoff in sight, Oregon officials expect as much as a $2 billion economic loss by fall...
Just then a small girl, probably ten or less, darted into the bar. She composed herself, then marched up calmly to the first table and began in a flat monotone, How many delicious candy bars will you buy made so fine (they melt in your mouth) especially for the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church of Wichita Kansas girls' track team. She droned on for about a minute, looking expectant. She repeated the litany three or four times, but nobody was buying...
...heard an interesting story from Iowa, a follow-up to our Jan. 31 cover on the Big Freeze. The Saturday night after that issue came out, Gordon Neal, at home on his Mount Vernon farm, got an unexpected phone call. The caller: President Jimmy Carter, who had been reading TIME and had seen our reference to the Neals' frozen water pipe. The two chatted about the fuel crisis, Neal's 160-acre farm and the weather. It turned out that Neal's pipe had burst and been repaired. He had, in fact, been in the bathtub when...
...last work, the Transfiguration, was acclaimed as a masterpiece by the file of Cardinals and connoisseurs who trooped past his bier and saw the painting near by. The strong, graceful figures, the supple, continuous modeling, the ecstatic vision of a gravity-free Christ rising into the air above Mount Tabor-these struck Raphael's admirers not only as the quintessence of his style but as a climax of the entire Renaissance system of ideal figure painting...