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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This lecture, to which all students of both colleges are invited, is the fourth in a series of weekly lectures on the news, inaugurated this fall by the League. Previous meetings have heard Michael Karpovitch, associate professor of History, William H. Riker, teaching fellow in Government, and Romylos C. Macridis, teaching fellow in Government...
...They also killed more passengers than ever before: 75 in the U.S., 4 overseas,* in eight crashes. From these figures the air passenger of 1947 could take this small comfort: it worked out at one death for 60,000,000 passenger-miles. And this was much better than in previous years...
Northrop was persuaded to go out on the limb because of its experience in working with light materials. Designed by a crew of engineers, the Northrop arm is a plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...
Gallerygoers noted Kantor's never-failing subtlety of color and texture, his sculpturesque use of form, but most of them preferred the more simply enjoyable Cape Cod sand dunes, big trees and haunted houses of previous Kantor phases...
...fever, which afflicted only a few thousand people 15 years ago and now strikes nearly 3,000,000, was still rising. In New Hampshire, where skiing is good business as well as good fun, there were 52 tows, aerial tramways(and a skimobile) operating; the previous high: 35. Every inn and farmhouse near Vermont's famed runs (among them: Suicide Six, Nose Dive, John Doe's Misery) was heavily booked, at from $2 to $20 a day. This week, the season's first ski train chugged out of Boston's North Station...