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Alarmed by the increase of bicycle mishaps earlier this winter, the SGA proposed the registration and inspection of all bicycles operated at Radcliffe. The publication of a mimeographed pamphlet entitled "How to Ride Bicycles Safely" was also suggested...
Blood on the Walls. Reading an astronomy pamphlet in the mid-1920s Von Braun saw a drawing of a rocket streaking through space to the moon. It illustrated an article about Pioneer Rocket Theorist Hermann Oberth, now 63 and a consultant to Von Braun's Huntsville team, which venerates him as "The Old Gentleman." Von Braun sent away for a copy of Oberth's classic book, The Rocket to the Interplanetary Spaces, was shocked to discover that it contained mostly mathematical equations. Until then, Von Braun had disliked math, and indeed had flunked it in school. "But," says...
...chance to die fighting, and some had succeeded in escaping. But Hungary's Jews had gone docilely to their deaths, innocently sure they were merely being sent to labor camps. Gruenwald pored through old records, questioned other survivors, four years ago published his findings in a pamphlet. His accusing finger pointed at a well-known official in the Israeli government-Dr. Israel Kastner. Gruenwald charged that Kastner, former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis, allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with...
...fishing groups, a men's discussion group named The Carpenters ("they try to face real realities"), a Woman's Association, a boys' hot-rod group, "family festivals," camps for all ages, a radio program, a chatty church newspaper, ten choirs ("SING! SING! SING!" says a recruiting pamphlet). In a recent sermon, one minister ruefully quoted a newcomer as saying to another: "I guess I'll have to join that damned church to get acquainted...
Trottenberg said that room costs have not yet been decided, but will be published in a pamphlet some time this spring. House staff details will be decided by Miss Frances Brown, Dean of Residence at Radcliffe College, who will also direct the new Harvard dormitory...