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Almost daily through the week came reports that the Soviet Government and foreign embassies had been evacuated from Moscow. Usually they were denied, but at week's end U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt admitted that he was keeping only a skeleton staff with him in Moscow, that the rest of the staff had been moved to Kazan, 450 miles east, the longtime Tatar capital near the upper Volga some 400 miles west of the Urals. It looked as if far Kazan would be the next Soviet capital if Moscow was evacuated...
Under a three-ton marble slab were five rough slabs of limestone. Under them, the ebony coffin in which the conqueror lay in robes " of gold brocade. Except for the head, the skeleton was well-preserved in musk and rose water, and the scientists discovered that philology was right (Tamerlane comes from Timur Leuk, meaning Timur the Lame) : his right leg was shorter than his left. With him were buried two sons and his astronomer grandson, Ulugh...
...leading Paris dailies the skeleton remains are miserable little sheets consisting of one-and two-page editions in the Unoccupied Zone (where most are exiles), a maximum four pages in Paris...
...jungle, like a body, is a complex organism constructed of many parts which interact, which can be grouped and are yet dependent upon one another just as the skeleton, the nervous system, the blood . . . and other systems are in an animal. A bit of jungle breathes and grows and reproduces itself like a great animal." This is the thesis of Ivan T. Sanderson's new book, Living Treasure (Viking...
Graduation is the nemosis of Coach Jacko Mikkola's Varsity track team-1941 edition. It has left the barest skeleton of a cinder squad from which to construct a formidable aggregation able to carry the Crimson colors to victory in the wearying spring schedule that opens with a B.C. practice meet Saturday, faces Dartmonth's powerful Big Green on May 10, and roaches a climax with the Yale contest...