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...Nightingale started planting vegetables on arid land and irrigating them from shallow wells whose water carried 1,620 parts of salt per million. To his surprise, a long list of test crops- cucumbers, carrots, lima beans, broccoli, corn, cabbage, etc.- seemed to grow better than with purer water. On another test plot, he irrigated alfalfa and forage grasses with water containing 4,100 parts per million of salt. The crops grew vigorously...
...last week flew Britain's suddenly famed runner, Roger Bannister, the world's first four-minute miler (TIME, May 17). But just as the jaws were about to snap tight, cables crackled across the Atlantic, Parliament rocked and anxious hands reached out to preserve Roger Bannister for purer things...
Biggs disapproves of the still prevalent nineteen century fashion, which called for ever bigger and boomier organs, trying to compete with the symphony orchestra. He is dedicated to the "baroque" style, which to organists means the simpler, purer style of Bach's day. In his playing, Biggs rarely pulls all the stops. But despite his musical austerity, he can unbend. At an organists' convention he helped organize a few years ago, high points were a jam session of four organs playing...
...Harvard-Boston College game would be a natural rivalry, one that could match Princeton and Yale for spectator interest and fill the Stadium to its 40,000 capacity. Certainly B.C. with low pressure athletic policy, a lighter schedule, and high admissions standards is close to Ivy Colleges, and probably purer than some of the non-Ivy colleges now on the varsity schedule. Davidson openly offers athletic scholarships, while Ohio University will accept any athlete who applies. The addition of Boston College to the schedule might help community relations, removing some of the resentment caused by the current hands-off policy...
Author Malaparte begins his pitch with a sugary invocation of his victims. "The American army," he coos, "[is] the loveliest, the kindest . . . army in the world. . . I like Americans. . . and I proved it a hundred times during the war. . . Their souls are pure, much purer than ours. I like the Americans. . . because they believe that Christ is always on the side of those who are in the right, because they believe that it is a sin to be in the wrong...