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Lecture/Demonstration: Thursday Speaker Series--"Third Stream Music." Ran Blake, musician. 4 p.m., Paine Hall. Free...
...Junior high was a pain in the ass. They had me doing solid geometry, or algebra, and third-year Latin was not pleasurable. See, I had no father. My father died when I was young so I had no iron discipline as a teenager, and when I became a teenager, my mother became a pushover...
More than one-third of the 300 missions in rural Rhodesia have closed since 1972. Others survive only as caretaker operations. One undaunted exception is St. Augustine's, a boarding school at Penha-longa, only 20 miles from Elim in an area where the guerrillas now operate with impunity. St. Augustine's, run by Anglican friars of the Community of the Resurrection, was founded in 1891, and is one of the oldest church missions in Rhodesia. In 1939, over white opposition, it established the colony's first secondary school for Africans, and boasts 1,150 students...
...plane will also be highly economical. Its engine will sip far less fuel than current models. Result: the 767, which will replace DC-9s as well as 707s and older 727s, will carry as many or more passengers for one-third less fuel...
...planet with roughly earthlike dimensions. Not so, say the Naval Observatory astronomers. Using the presence of the moon and knowledge of its orbital characteristics, they have calculated that Pluto's diameter is about one-fifth that of the earth's, its density perhaps less than one-third and, most significant, its mass only .2%. This means that their shrunken Pluto may not have enough gravitational pull to account for suspected irregularities, previously attributed to it, in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, the seventh and eighth planets from the sun. Then what could be disturbing the two larger...