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Every afternoon the juniors spend two hours with the lower-middlers, upper-middlers and seniors on the vast playing fields-a sea of runners, jumpers, kickers. All get a chance to excel at one of 17 sports, if not on a varsity team, then on one of four intramural teams...
Though its widespread popularity in the U.S. is a relatively recent phenomenon, factoring dates back to the beginnings of commerce. Prosperous Romans used factors (the term comes from the Latin facere, meaning to do) to handle the sales from their country estates. Factors followed the early settlers to the New...
Prisoner of the Vatican. Pius refused the pension offered him by the Italian government, and settled down to live in St. Peter's as the "Prisoner of the Vatican." He died, embittered by his political failures, in 1878. When his coffin was carried to a final resting place at...
A third fascist group is led by Andrew Fountaine, a wealthy landowner who envisages a northern Europe community from which Jews and Negroes would be excluded; the group uses as its symbol the sun wheel emblem of Arminius, leader of the Germanic tribes that were said to have preserved Aryan...
A Sybarite's Passion. As far as historians know. Cardinal Wolsey was his own chief architect, and he certainly spared neither his talent nor his energies. When he had finished, Hampton Court probably covered eight acres of land, contained 1,000 rooms, was the largest single structure built in...