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Communist Castles. Rugged as this daily grind is, more and more Muscovites are turning into dachniks. Private frame dwellings (individually owned, but on land leased from the state) arise in numbers almost as great as the grey blocks of new city apartments that grow in melancholy monotony in Moscow'...
For geophysicists, the ocean trenches are some of the most interesting places on earth. A well-supported theory holds that the trenches are places where the earth's crust is being sucked slowly into the depths by currents in the plastic inner material. When Trieste has penetrated the Marianas...
Understandably enough, Harvard wishes to hold itself high above the herd--to appear in print only at birth, death, and marriage, as it were--but, like the lady said, times have changed. Perhaps Harvard students need to enjoy the sensation of the intellectually competitive experience that "College Bowl affords, in...
Canceled Trip. The Nixon forces, braced for a rugged New Hampshire campaign, were at first disbelieving, then jubilant when they heard the bulletins. Nixon himself was at home preparing to take his children and his 14-year-old nephew, Donald Nixon, to a museum when the news came. He canceled...
Never before in the 40-year history of the National Football League had two teams met for the championship amid such furor. To see their Colts play the New York Giants, Baltimore fans boosted scalpers' prices to $100 a seat, haled one another into court to fight over jointly...