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Last week the police found one more clue-a shoe and scarf lying near a glazed-over hole in the ice and snow covering the Cambridge reservoir. The scarf was identical with the one father Clark was wearing: his wife had given one to him and one to Tom for Christmas. Next day, when divers found Tom's body under the ice, authorities concluded that in the darkness he must have mistaken the reservoir for a snow-covered meadow. "Another victim," said Tom's father wearily, "of a criminal fraternity prank." At week's end, Deke national...
...years a steady stream of Asian women and children, mostly Indians seeking reunion with husbands and parents, has poured into South Africa to join the 360,000 Asians already there. Last week the flow reached flood proportions, then stopped as suddenly as the flow of water from a reservoir when the sluice gates are closed. In late 1953 South Africa passed a law barring all future immigration of Asians into white-supremist South Africa. On the night before the law went into effect last week, the airports were jammed with last-minute arrivals. A party of 150 Asians was stranded...
...body of the M.I.T. freshman who was lost in an initiation stunt a week ago was found yesterday in the Cambridge Reservoir, by a team of skin divers...
...case in point was the Aswan Dam, which would harness the Nile, provide the parched areas of Egypt with the largest man-made reservoir in the world (and, in fact, do as much for the Egyptian economy as all public works since 1900 have done for the U.S. economy). Highlights of the briefing...
...freedom and the American experiment. This is a very serious situation, serious in view of the destiny of man, and so grave that one wonders . . . whether the world's intellectuals have not already cast their vote against freedom . . . "If the American intellectual were clearly aware of the reservoir of hope which his country represents for the entire world, would he not carry his country's conception of man to a waiting world? . . . Would it be fanciful or absurd or unjust to imagine that certain intellectuals might feel themselves touched to the quick, personally insulted or personally revolted...