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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectre is haunting Harvard. Creeping silently over the western horizon, it imperceptibly shadows the Cambridge scene, directing a bleak, demanding palm towards the wallet pockets of ten thousand men. It is the spectre of mid-western sartorial tastes which now threatens traditional eastern university styles...
According to the experts, Ramon Magsaysay and his Nacionalista-Democratic coalition are likely to top Quirino & Co. by several hundred thousand votes, in a fair count of ballots. Magsaysay supporters say that they have evidence that provincial officials have been ordered to produce Quirino pluralities or else. Quirino's managers released in turn a Nacionalista memorandum to party workers which suggested that if they anticipated attempts at intimidation, they should carry knives, hatchets or bolos. The election board in one province forbids flapping shirttails-the traditional Filipino way of dressing-on election day, so that officials can better tell...
Last week Pianist Kapell. 31. took off in a British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6 for the long flight home. Eight thousand miles later, letting down for an instrument landing at San Francisco, the big ship clipped a fog-concealed tree, crashed headlong into the side of a mountain ravine. Among the 19 who died in the flames was William Kapell...
...beginning and will have no end. It changes locally somewhat because of the "creation" of new matter (hydrogen atoms) in space. The hydrogen draws together to form new stars and galaxies, which gradually drift apart. But except for such "details," the universe is always in a "steady state." One thousand billion years from now it will be pretty much in the same condition as it is today...
...Baker took over the newly-created Bureau for Veterans' Wives after being a personnel manager in a local factory during the war. Then located in temporary quarters in Longfellow Hall, Mrs. Baker took into her confidence almost two thousand married GI's. "What a wonderful bunch they were, mature, all the wives willing to work!" But she quickly added, "They're all dears, though...