Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last spring Conrad, an ex-charter-service pilot who has logged more than 36,000 hours and more than 60 transatlantic crossings, made a Casablanca-to-Los Angeles run in the same plane with a 250-h.p. six-cylinder engine and also broke a record (TIME, June 15). This time he switched to a 180-h.p. four-cylinder engine, filled his wing tanks with 60 gal. of fuel, loaded four additional tanks (300 gal.) in the cabin and fuselage. With no supplies except three jugs of water, tea and coffee, he set out across the water...
Quincy House will sponsor the first House arts festival in the history of the College this spring. Lasting from April 14 to 17, the festival will include exhibitions and competitions for work in the graphic arts done by Quincy members and people with some relation to the House...
George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, will spend five weeks at the College this spring as a visiting lecturer in History. He will deliver a dozen lectures on the history of Soviet diplomacy under Stalin...
During his visit to the College--for a week before and a month after spring vacation--Kennan will live in one of the Houses. Although Kennan said yesterday that he hoped to stay at several Houses "in rotation," Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, said this would be difficult as "We couldn't very well shuttle him around every three days." Kennan said he is "very interested in meeting undergraduates," and Gilmore promised yesterday that various Houses will be able to have Kennan for dinner and evening meetings...
...doesn't seem possible now," Owen stated, "to move in any significant number of graduates." Last spring, the Masters had hoped to re-institute the pre-war plan of providing rooms for these students, but with pressures of deconversion, increased enrollment, and the need for tutor's offices, the plan has been dropped in effect...