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Since the bomb tests on Christmas Island are nearer to our shores than Japan's, why aren't we protesting to the British...
Most of the Harvard community was asleep at 6:40 a.m. yesterday when, in the words of one early morning riser, "the ground shook slightly and there was a low rumble." Nearer the center of the shock, some 100 miles to the northeast of Cambridge, buildings swayed and china rattled for several seconds. There was little actual damage anywhere, however...
...Conference, which has not yet concluded, is to set up an area of agreement from which further gains can be achieved. In this, at least, Stassen appears to have been successful. If he can cement the advances of this conference, the future of disarmament will have come several steps nearer realization...
...drives, etc. Here in five years we stay in every night, my husband drops off to sleep, and I look at TV which I hate. For such a huge country I think its lack of traditions, glamour and culture disgusting. Furthermore, tiny England is always being criticized, but Russia, nearer your own size, gets away with anything, including murder. I'm just saving until I can skip this lousy burg...
...Somewhat nearer to Widener than to Boylston Hall squats a dragon, his squarish maw gaping in anger, or majesty, or perhaps in pain. On his broad back rests an erect ten-ton marble slab, inscribed with attractive Chinese figures. Fashioned in Tientsin, he was shipped to this country by Chinese alumni in China, to be presented on the second day of Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in September...