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...Sixteen months ago the President of the U.S. left a Big Three conference in Bermuda and flew to New York, where he made a memorable promise to the United Nations Assembly: "The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic riddle-to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life." To back up his words, Dwight Eisenhower made a concrete offer of nuclear materials to an international agency designed to develop peaceful uses of the atom...
Graham delivered his message from the flower-decked platform of Glasgow's huge Kelvin Hall. Sixteen thousand Scots sat in sirence before him and hundreds more were seeing him and listening over a TV relay near by. "I don't want anyone talking or moving for the next half hour," Billy began. Then, with voice vibrating and eyes raised toward heaven, he besought them to have faith and make their peace with God. He ended with the command: "Come to Christ." All told, 470 Scots came forward that evening to make "decisions for Christ...
...solving this dilemma, educators have so far achieved only limited success. Engineering students spurn a normal liberal arts education followed by two years of graduate work because of their notorious haste to enter active practice. Even arrangements to cut this time down, such as that between M.I.T. and sixteen small colleges, can handle only a small number of students because of the size of the institutions involved. The logical area for improving engineering education is at the engineering institutions themselves. It is to technical schools like M.I.T. and California Tech, that most engineers want to go; it is here then...
...Sixteen fighters will square off tonight when the semi-finals in the inter-House boxing tournament get under way in the boxing tournament get under way in the I.A.B...
...fourth approach, the control tower warned him that he was flying too low while still out over Jamaica Bay. He tried to pull up, but the airliner faltered (probably stalled) and plunged into one of the 2,000-ft. piers that carry the "slopeline" approach lights of Runway 4. Sixteen of the 22 passengers and all ten crew members were killed.-Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. One possibility is crew fatigue. The airliner had flown from, Rome (18 hours) without change of crew...