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...speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other day, and, hell, you have to be a second cousin to Jesus Christ if you want to play at the Seminole Golf Club. But the social as well as the economic strata are open to anybody who wants to work in Wichita...
Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the land masses on opposite sides of the fault-unmistakable signs of a major earthquake. Using radioactive-carbon dating techniques to determine the age of the dead organic material in the peat layers, he has now determined that the quakes occurred around...
...there is good play when the cool comes in the evening. Before they went to work they took a boring of the old court, fearing that they would have to start with a new foundation. But what they found was three or four other surfaces laid down like geologic strata-late Cal Coolidge, early Franklin Roosevelt, middle...
...error of their ways, nor does she argue that all Communists are busily repenting the error of their ways, not does she argue that all Communists are misunderstood saints. In fact, she successfully shows that Communists came from--and return to--all types of intellectual, cultural and economic strata...
...evaluate advantaged students may obscure the talents of a student who has grown up under oppressive conditions does not lower standards or make exceptions. It acknowledges that different criterion are needed for students from different conditions and allows Harvard to admit and train outstanding young people from all strata of society...