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...fresh Communist regiments go for Gabrielle again. The Algerians .stand. At 2000. the Reds try again -the eighth time. "We've been firing for an hour," says a French voice on Gabrielle's radio, "and still they get nearer." At 2030, Red artillery knocks out the radio and searches for the remaining Algerian mortars. The Algerian infantrymen shift their mortars around the perimeter and keep the Reds at bay. "Our barbed wire has disappeared under heaps of their dead," an officer reports. At 2300, the Communists withdraw. Weather still blocks out French tactical...
...these who didn't get their fill of snow this winter, there's always plenty in northern Vermont and Canada during early April. Stowe and the Laurentians are usually most popular at this time. Room and board here ranges from three to fifteen dollars a day, but usually is nearer the former. Round trip train fare to Stowe is $16, to the Laurentians...
...needs. But the funds for the three constructions will no doubt come from very different sources. Health needs never present quite the same problems in raising money which plague other areas in the University; the history of the Medical School attests this. A new medical center, then, may be nearer a reality now than in all the years it has been discussed. And when it is built, Blue Cross coverage should be adopted with it. Both will strengthen the University's lamentable facilities...
Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who spotted the planet Pluto (1930), is looking for a nearer and even more elusive object: a second satellite of the earth. Since he refuses to give details and refers questioners to Army Ordnance-in Washington, it is fair to assume that the famous rocket-men who work for Army Ordnance are interested in the project. They may want merely to know what opposition from nature their rockets are apt to encounter when they climb deep into space. Or they may have a more ambitious interest: a nearby, natural satellite might be a more convenient base...
...school in Jerusalem, discussed a part of the Qumran find-27 fragments from the first and second chapters of Samuel I-recently pieced together and translated. Some of his fragments differ from existing Hebrew Biblical texts, and Scholar Cross believes they should be accepted as older and nearer the original than any other extant version. Among the corrections and additions he offers: Eli, the priest, was 90 years old at his death (not 98, as the King James version has it); Samuel, whose mother pledged him to the Lord's service for "all the days of his life...