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...anniversary and amid preparations for the marriage of R.F.K.'s oldest child Kathleen, 22, the Kennedy family was struck again. The towheaded twelve-year-old son of Edward Kennedy was found to have bone cancer, a rare and sometimes fatal disease of children. As a result, Edward Jr., called Teddy, underwent amputation of his right leg in Georgetown University Hospital. The Senator's elder son, second of three children, was an ardent fledgling skier, sailor and football player. Loving sports is, of course, part of the Kennedy tradition. So, too, was his father's decision to participate...
...Koran by private tutors, became an expert horseman and joined his father's military campaigns. In 1931, after Ibn Saud had consolidated his kingdom, Feisal was named Foreign Minister and began to travel extensively in Europe and the U.S. After his father died in 1953, Feisal's oldest brother Saud became King; but he proved inept, squandering oil revenues on monumental palaces, flashy Cadillacs and grafting relatives. By 1958 the royal treasury was scraping absolute bottom, and Saud asked Feisal to become Prime Minister. In 1964 more responsible family leaders finally forced Saud to step down in favor...
...reason that the commission was so anxious to have new windows be designed correctly, according to Amy Cohn of the commission staff, is that "Massachusetts Hall is one of a handful of examples of 18th Century New England institutional architecture, besides being the oldest Harvard building." She said that Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, architects had "taken great pains in the 1930s to see that the changes they made were done perfectly," and that "the commission was eager to see the same thing done...
...horizons, as archaeologists call them-the individual settlements were in remarkably good condition. They had been so well preserved by covers of protective dust, which blew down from nearby bluffs after they were abandoned, that they can be "read" by archaeologists like pages of a history book. The oldest layer dates back some 8,000 years, proving that the site of Koster's cornfield-and probably other parts of the fertile Illinois River valley as well-were inhabited long before the Egyptians built the Pyramids or the ancient Britons erected their monument at Stonehenge...
...undergraduate concentrations at Harvard are restricted: Social Studies, History and Literature, History and Science, Visual and Environmental Studies, Folklore and Mythology, and Applied Mathematics. The oldest and largest, History and Lit, has about 180 concentrators; the smallest, Vis Stud, has about...