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Though information gathered at the polar station is scientifically valuable and could even help doctors select and prepare the best possible crews for long space journeys, the reason for the American presence at the pole is as much geopolitical as geophysical. It gives the U.S. a unique toehold in all the Antarctic claims except the Norwegian, which stops short of the pole proper. Says Bernhard Lettau, polar oceanography manager for the National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S.'s $67.4 million-a-year Antarctic scientific effort: "The pole is highly symbolic. By being here we maintain our status...
...support this thesis, the authors adopt a casebook approach. They select 14 incidents from the U.S. past, ranging chronologically from the Jamestown colony to Watergate. They show how each subject makes different demands on the historian. The Salem witch trials of 1692, for example, call for close scrutiny of a single, tiny village, while the U.S. decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima demands a broad inquiry into the dynamics of overlapping committees and bureaucracies. Finally, Davidson and Lytle show how certain historians have faced and stared down these problems...
John P. Reardon, Jr., director of athletics, will select Bertagna's successor. Reardon was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...useful information. Harvard began several years ago to include in the annual Financial Report an Analysis of Financial Results which seeks to achieve three important purposes: to summarize the financial results for the year; to identify and discuss the significant factors which these results reflect; and, most important, to select one or more major financial issues and opportunities which face the University and to discuss the University's planned actions in the related area within the broad context of the major administrative, financial, and educational initiatives being undertaken by the University...
...Dallas deb. "You have no idea what a great honor it is to be a debutante in Dallas," says Mimi's grandmother, Florra Anderson. Mimi is one of only nine debutantes in Dallas this year. Traditionally, all of them have a relative who belonged to Idlewild, a select men's club composed of about 60 bachelors and a few hundred more inactive, married members. With fine discrimination and total secrecy, the men of Idlewild have been picking the debs since...