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...could, to support a poor widow and her daughter, and in return for his kindness was occasionally permitted to share the widow's bed. Unhappily, others were sometimes permitted the same pleasure. One night when two young villagers pushed his platform up the long steep hill to the widow's isolated hut, the beggar found Ahmad the woodcutter there...
...dreams of James M. McGovern Jr. '64 point upward--perhaps to Congress, perhaps to statewide office. But the ladder of ascending political ambition is a steep one, and McGovern has resolved to climb every rung, not hop, skip, and jump with the danger of dropping painfully to the bottom. His race three weeks ago for the Cambridge City Council was a losing one because he wasn't elected. But the 22-year-old candidate did not expect to win, and the events of the campaign did nothing to discourage his dreams...
Beneath Silver Wattle. His real mettle will be tested, however, on long cross-country runs through the steep hills. And each weekend, rain, shine or snowstorm, hiking parties set out after class on Friday, live until Sunday afternoon in the bush, cooking johnnycakes and damper (a sconelike bread). They cover up to 100 miles of trail beneath silver wattle and broad-leaf peppermint trees, scramble across crumbly dacite rocks. They also tramp six miles to reach ski runs on Mount Stirling, where there are no tows or lifts...
...product that is richer per ton than natural ore. So important is this development that Governor Karl F. Rolvaag's Democratic-Farm-Labor Party last year finally persuaded Minnesota voters to approve a "taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment no higher than other businesses. One day after the election, in an indication of what was to come, U.S. Steel announced that it would build a $120 million taconite plant at Mountain Iron, Minn...
John Cromwell's Of Human Boudage (1934), and contemporary films of a quality not commensurate with either the trappings of Philharmonic Hall or the steep admission price...