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...prizes are awarded automatically. The summa cum laude graduate who has the highest Phi Beta Kappa score receives the Sophia Freund Prize of $600 without a bit of extra effort. The Harvard Engineering School Chapter of Tau Beta Pi gives $25 to the most promising engineer. If a boy lives in Lowell House, develops a strong character, and maintains a sense of quiet decency, he may be rewarded by the Korean War Memorial Prize...
British border patrols round up the "illegal immigrants" by the hundreds, but 20% of the border crossers slip through the dragnet, aided by relatives in Hong Kong and by say-tau (literally, snake heads). The say-tau sneak into the hills across the frontier and, for a price, supply the refugees with city clothing to replace their conspicuous peasant garb and with information about the safest routes into the city. Captured refugees are herded into a processing camp, questioned, fed, and then sent back across the frontier to the mainland. This month, more than 30,000 have been sent back...
...Maoris are most careful to give every vowel and each syllable full and equal value, with a touch of Boston broadness. In the word under discussion, one takes a deep breath and says "tau" (as in cow), "martar," and then goes on from there, ending up with "tarhoo." For non-Maoris, the English translation is easier: "Hill Where the Great Husband of Heaven, Tane, Caused Plaintive Music from His Flute to Ascend to His Beloved...
...Green Bank, W. Va., who this week launched an effort called Project Ozma-after the Princess in Author L. Frank Baum's strange and faraway Land of Oz. In Project Ozma, Green Bank's 85-ft. radio telescope is turned toward Epsilon Eridani and another star, Tau Ceti, both of them about eleven light years (66 trillion miles) away. Tuned to the 21-centimeter waves (1,420 megacycles) that come from cold hydrogen in interstellar space, the telescope is so set up that it points for a short time at the target star, then at an empty region...
Option Play. In Indianapolis, Delta Tau Delta fraternity brothers at Butler University welcomed one Ray Lincolnholl, highly recommended football prospect, as an overnight guest, next day found Lincolnholl missing, and so were a wristwatch, ring, sweater, leather belt, shaving kit, fountain pen, electric shaver and typewriter...