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Liechtenstein, with a population of 17,000 covering sixty-one square miles, remains the only survivor of the 342 states that once comprised the Holy Roman Empire. The House of Liechtenstein dates from the twelfth century, and Crown Prince Johann-Adam will be the thirteenth monarch of his line when he succeeds to the throne some...
...Kurds have a long and varied history. During the Middle Ages twenty-eight Kurdish principalities were formed, one led by Saladin, the curse of the Crusaders. The Kurdish princes, however, were subjugated by the Turks in the thirteenth century and the Kurds remained under Turkish domination until World War I. In 1920 they were promised an independent Kurdistan by the Treaty of Sevres only to be robbed of it by the Treaty of Lousanne...
...kind used for burials by Hittites, whose mighty empire flourished in the interior of Asia Minor, several hundred miles east of Sardis. George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, believes that this burial takes the history of Sardis back to the fourteenth or thirteenth century...
...star with low smashes that outpositioned him repeatedly. The final score was 15-3, 7-15, 15-12, 15-6. Walter meets and probably beats Jim Cohen of Cornell this morning; he faces the big test in the afternoon against Bulldog Bob Hetherington, seeded fourth in the tourney and thirteenth in the nation. Hetherington has to beat Bob Pope of Trinity this morning...
Crimson Captain Mark Mullin finished eleventh in the fast race, only a minute and 18 seconds behind the record-setting pace of Machooka. Ed Hamlin took thirteenth, but Ed Meehan came in a disappointing twenty-third, as he was plagued by both stitch trouble and the dry heaves. If illness had not marred Meehan's effort, the squad would probably have been third, since Princeton topped them by only 12 points...