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"Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin . . ." On Halloween eve 50 years ago, Orson Welles' broadcast of H.G. Wells' classic The War of the Worlds panicked citizens on the U.S. East Coast who believed Martians were invading. Last week when a...
The civil war erupted in 1975 as Angola achieved independence after an anticolonial struggle against Portugal that had begun in 1961. It has killed more than 100,000 Angolans, wounded tens of thousands and cost the country as much as $23 billion in war damage, lost crops and lost diamond...
Florence and Jackie were not the only ones to bring new maturity to their sports. The first gold medal awarded in track and field went to Rosa Mota of Portugal, who won the women's marathon in 2:25:39. While the hot and humid conditions made a new record...
Nina P. Mercer '89 says she feels that her summer research was vital to her thesis. Mercer, a fine arts concentrator, received $2400 in traveling grants from Middle Eastern Studies and Radcliffe College to examine Izmik tile in museums in Portugal, France, England and Turkey.
Statistics vary, but Yugoslavia (12 deaths per 10,000 vehicles per year) and Portugal (11 deaths) appear to head the grim list of annihilation on Europe's roads. The U.S. rate: 2.6 per 10,000 vehicles. Italy reduced the limit after a dire weekend last month, when road fatalities totaled...