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...stability returned to the market, more and more conservative investors began to foresake the low (two and one half to three per cent) return rates on safe bonds for the higher income and better big money opportunities of stocks. As stocks became fashionable, Harvard's bundle climbed swiftly from trace holdings before the 1929 Crash to 35 per cent of the total endowment...
Illya Darling is a 15-watt musical with one trace of Greek fire-Melina Mercouri. She plays furiously across the footlights to keep audiences from realizing that there is nothing behind them. Flaccidly adapted by Jules Dassin from his film Never on Sunday, the stage version lacks the three elements that gave the movie a certain credibility as a holiday of the senses, the Greek...
...stolen pocket-books (100 percent carelessness, Tonis affirms) and in the spring, bicycles. But most important, a campus-bound security force simply lacks the time, men, and training to do serious police work. Even Walsh, despite his clothing, does little real snooping. "He is not," Tonis admits with a trace of a smile, "like a James Bond or a private...
...working for about a month to comb the area. The only clue came from a cook in a Lutheran-mission bungalow, who said that she had seen Thompson standing on a nearby plateau for about 30 minutes. Then, she reported, "suddenly he disappeared." By week's end, no trace of him had been found...
...recorded history, Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," was the gateway between East and West; it was marched over, fought over, civilized and reduced to ashes by a dozen different peoples. The treasures contained in the Iraq Museum's five spacious, well-lit and air-conditioned buildings therefore trace an unequaled pageant of man's patient attempts to build and rebuild that ephemeral thing called civilization...