Word: oak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls chosen include Deborah H. of Whitman Hall and Williams- History and Literature; Judith H. of Briggs Hall and Worcester, Helen H. Arnold, of Cabot Hall Oak Ridge, Tenn., Mathematics; B. DuBois, of Gilman House and Conn., History and Literature. Also elected were Ann Gale, of Cabot and Glencoe, III., Biochemistry; S. Garelick, of Cambridge, History Literature; Judith L. Goldstein, of Center, Social Relations; Janet Martin of Holmes Hall and N.Y., History and Literature; C. Merton, of Cambridge and on-Hudson, N.Y., Social Relations; Patricia N. Wagar, of Holmes Hall Madison, N.J., History; and Susan Warram, of Boston, American History...
...Atomic Energy Commission usually hates to tell about accidents to nuclear reactors. Reason: the public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The film shows dozens of scientists and technicians working for nine months to patch two small holes that had been burned in the 5/16-in. zirconium shell of the reactor's fiercely radioactive core...
...first of these eleven short stories, a man and his wife, living a life of crushing respectability in an awful welfare-state township, pray to the Virgin to be relieved of their childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales...
...peaks of the Aurès Mountains, unloaded their cargo of French paratroopers. In the narrow valleys below, French infantry sweated and scrambled their way up the rocky slopes. Trapped between land and air, units of the rebel F.L.N. fought to the death or fled into the surrounding oak and pine forests. A French communiqué tersely announced that 300 rebels were slain...
...that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat of arms and the proud gold lettering, "Les Grands Express Européens." Hand-cut glass separated the sleeping compartment from the outside aisle. In elegant salon cars, diners lingered over oysters and chilled glasses of Veuve Cliquot served by attendants...