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Charles Englehard is a shrewd man among the shrewd, but a jolly man with a heartening laugh and sparkling dark brown eyes which mirror the clever mind behind, and when Nijinsky wins the Laurel International for his thirteenth victory in thirteen starts and retires, Englehard will have a lot to smile about, because he will have raced the greatest horse in the world, the greatest horse that any of us will probably ever see in our lifetime...
...Thirteen-year-olds also fared best in scientific simplicities, but they were able to make basic judgments based on their knowledge. Solid majorities knew that a fanned fire burns faster because of the increase in oxygen. A surprise for parents: 89% identified the balanced meal (steak, bread, carrots, milk) in a list of diverting alternatives. The 13-year-olds tended to be stronger at graph and table reading than at using lab equipment. Nearly three-quarters agreed that the statement "My dog is better than your dog" is not a matter amenable to scientific inquiry...
...York Times fiction bestseller list. Segal (Harvard 58) is a classics professor at Yale who runs in the Boston marathen and wrote the screenplay for the Beatles movie, Yellow Submarine. His moist saga of a Harvard-Radcliffe romance circa-1965 was originally published in Ladies' Home Journal. Segal says. "Thirteen million readers of Ladies' Home Journal have learned something about what college kids are doing today." He bases this hope on the fact that his short novel (130 small pages of large type and generous margins) has girls swearing and sleeping with boys and things like that. (Of course there...
...Bernard. Bernard refused to serve in World War Two, and spent time in McNeil Island Federal Prison, then the psychiatric section of the Veterans' Hospital in Los Angeles. He visited a Utopian colony in Paraguay after the war to gather material for his senior thesis, and ended up staying thirteen years until the colony went out of business in 1961. He and his wife organized an obstructive but non-violent picket line at Port Chicago, California, from which 90 per cent of U.S. ammunitions for Vietnam are shipped, and maintained it for 800 days despite official pressure, police harassment...
...when students who refrain from physical assault are punished, students and faculty members begin considering the CRR a politically repressive body. Thirteen such students got sentences yesterday from admonishment to suspended requirements to withdraw...