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TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--Nothing could be more "moderate" than admitting one Negro girl to a Southern university of several thousand students. Yet had Autherine J. Lucy remained on the University of Alabama campus last February 6, a mob would probably have murdered her. Angry shouts of "Where's the nigger?" "Get her!" "Kill her!" "Keep 'Bama White" were the answers which moderation received here. Less than one month after she registered, Miss Lucy was expelled from the University by the Board of Trustees. "Moderation" had failed, although in fact the incident was considerably more complex than it appeared on the surface...
Yang Kwei Fei (Daiei; Buena Vista). Once upon a time, a thousand years ago. there lived a lonely emperor in old Cathay. His wife had died in the bloom of her youth, and he was inconsolable. In the morning when his ministers brought him the leading questions of the day, in the evening when they brought him the fairest maidens of the realm, the emperor only sighed and sent them away. Only in his music could he find surcease, and with his lute he whiled the sorrowing hours away. Aha. thought an ambitious general, if I can find the woman...
...specialist in phytogeography, which means that he studies remains of ancient plants with an eye to what they tell about ancient climate and geography. His favorite haunts are peat beds, where plant material is often preserved so well that the species can be identified easily after many thousand years. Pollen grains are especially useful. Birch pollen found at a certain level of an ancient peat bed is proof that the climate was cold when the peat was formed. If the peat is dated by its carbon 14 content, the actual age of the cold period can be determined...
...thousand years ago, says Dr. Godwin, the last remnants of the Pleistocene glacier held out in the higher mountains of northern Britain. Plant remains of this date show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea shows that the southern two-thirds of its basin was filled by a chilly swamp connecting Britain with the continent, from Denmark to France...
...process of making Britain an island took several thousand years, but by 5000 B.C. (about the time of man's first agriculture, in the Middle East) the English Channel had connected with the North Sea. From then on, no intruder-:plant, animal or human-invaded England by dry land...