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...abandoned laundry in Wilmette Ill., scientists working for the U.S. Army are patiently defrosting the arctic's icies secrets. While comic-strip artists fight th next war in outer space, the men in Wilmette are learning to defend a closer battle line: the frigid wasteland that arcs across the top of the world...
...with this reduction comes th problem of parcelling out the remain credit. If each year's work it worth half a credit, the student when the ROTC drops after two years will find himself forced into five regular courses for one of his last two years And full credit recognition for only the last two years would hold ever more of the same danger. The best plan would give a full credit for eacl of the first two years with the provision that any student voluntarily quitting the program in either year must take an extra course...
...English-speaking (35%) community. Relatively few El Pasoans speak both. For example, in the city's Bowie High School, under Texas law, English is the official school language. But a large proportion of Bowie students, those of Mexican descent, rarely speak any English when they leave th school grounds...
...Catholic missionaries discovered around 50,000 Christians isolated in little pockets throughout the country . . . These Japanese descendants of the martyrs of Nagasaki and Miyako discovered the missionaries. These latter were cautiously approached and by their answers to three questions were recognized as the successors of the i;th century Japanese pastors. The questions were: Did they come from the Pope in Rome? Were they celibates? Did they honor the Mother of Jesus? . . . (THE REV.) N. G. MCCLUSKEY, SJ. Paray-le-Monial, France...
...pumice. Pliny also quoted an Assyrian who had good results with a swallow's beak, ground up with myrrh. (He gave no directions for catching the swallow.) Bitter almonds had a legendary reputation in the Middle Ages, but Sir Thomas (Religio Medici) Browne, checking up in the 17;th century, sadly reported: "That antidote against ebriety . . . hath commonly failed." Later came raw eels, thoughtfully suffocated in wine. Present-day self-treatments include yeast, yoghurt, lime juice, vitamin B1, cabbage water or diminishing doses of alcohol...