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...caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of a female with many breasts, the symbol of productivity or a token of her function as the all-nourishing mother." Ostrich eggs indeed...
Like Touch. In action, stilt-legged Quarterback Staubach is vaguely reminiscent of an ostrich. As he steps up behind the center, his arms hang loosely, and he shakes his fingers like a high-jumper warming up for the bar. Then he grabs the ball, rolls out to his right, and the fun begins. "At this point," says a Navy coach, "nobody knows what he's going to do except Staubach and God." He may pass, he may run, or he may just drop back 25 or 30 yds., before he makes up his mind. Navy linemen no longer block...
...have read Dean Monro's letter in your issue of October 9 with interest and approval. It seems to me high time that some member of the administration faced the facts and implications of the present parietal rules and stopped playing ostrich. Dean Monro has spoken out honestly and courageously. No one can deny that the present rules not only facilitate sexual intercourse in the Harvard Houses but also give the impression that Harvard lends its sanction to this--indeed encourages it. No other legitimate institution invites unmarried men and women to share the conveniences of a bedroom. Whether this...
...first duty of the West German government is to effect a reconciliation with Poland and Russia. It must first assure Poland that it has no designs upon the territory lost to it at the close of World War II, should Germany eventually be reunified. Secondly, it must abandon the ostrich-like policy of refusing to maintain diplomatic relations with any country which recognizes the East German government...
...plates that comprise Description de I'Egypte. That monument of collective scholarship was assembled by the 167-man Commission on the Sciences and Arts that Napoleon brought with him to establish a cultural institute in Alexandria. The assembled scientists interspersed papers like "Observations on the Wing of the Ostrich'' and "Analysis of the Slime of the Nile" with studies on capillary attraction, the treatment of smallpox and bubonic plague, the formation of ammonia and the nature of light...