Word: snow
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...West and South, and that even when people respect the intellectual they do not necessarily accept his ideas. The fact is, however, that for some time now the U.S. has not been a place that intellectuals flee from, but a place they flee to. Britain's C. P. Snow has summed it up: "During the past 20 years, the U.S. has done something like 80% of the science and scholarship of the entire Western world." Chicago Economist George Stigler guesses that in the Athens of Pericles, full-time intellectuals numbered only about 200, or one for every...
...parent who doesn't live in a cork-lined room has probably heard Mary Poppins (Buena Vista) by now, and probably feels that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disneyland), Alice in Wonderland (Disneyland) and Peter and the Wolf (Columbia) are members of the family...
April is indeed the crudest month, especially in Britain. Wind-driven gusts of rain, sleet and snow last week caused a stirring of the earth's dull roots from John o' Groats in the North Sea to Lizard Point on the English Channel. Memory and desire were mixed with the drifting London fog, the wet pavements iridescent with lights, the factory smoke shrouding the Midlands, and files of miners with blackened faces trudging home from the pits...
...some substantial paper fortunes. The SEC chronology: On Nov. 10, 1963, Texas Gulf geologists, headed by Kenneth Darke, were drilling on a claim near Timmins when Darke pulled out an impressive core sample of high-grade copper and zinc-so impressive that he hiked ten miles in the snow to reach his Jeep, then drove into town to call company officials. They notified President Stephens immediately, told the geologists to keep in daily touch. The company officials who got the news then swore themselves to secrecy. They had trees planted in and around the drill holes to conceal the site...
...snow on the first day of the march fed this quiet emotion. The students trudged through the slush all day Friday and through much of the night feeling brave and somewhat martyred. The march ended Saturday in a solemn procession to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two miles away, where the demonstrators stood silently among the rows of clean white tombstones each representing a death...