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From the rest of Europe, from South America and the U.S., other TIME correspondents reported the same combination of caution and anxiety to be heard. Their reports reflected an uncommon amount of argument and uncertainty about a difficult subject, but the staff that handled those files in New York had some special qualifications. Researcher Clare Mead got her master's in history at Notre Dame, taught high school in Texas as a Dominican...
...recent student-sponsored Coed Week brought women students from throughout the northeast for academic and social activity. Brewster denied that Coed Week had a direct effect on his decision, but his proposal to the faculty praised the organizers of the week and their guests for providing Yale with "uncommon excitement." The Daily News editor said a study of the additional costs of co-education was ordered by the administration concurrently with Coed Week...
Evidence which led Lamberg-Karlovsky to believe that he had indeed found Carmania included the discovery of elephant teeth in the top of the mound. Elephants are uncommon to Persia but were regularly used by Alexander for military transportation...
...wisely avoided the pillory hysterical approach, reasoning that if "The Gate" follows the other sections, it must bear some relation to them. The lasting impression of this work and of the evening was a sensible, thoughtful and commendable performance of a program rich in history by an Orchestra of uncommon musicianship...
...city built in approximately 400 B.C. Lemberg-Karlovsky suspects that it is the ancient city of Carmania, which Alexander the Great conquered without shedding a drop of blood in 325 B.C. Although his theory is as yet unproven, the Harvard anthropologist points out that the teeth of elephants, animals uncommon to the area but regularly used for military transportation by Alexander, have been unearthed in the top of the mound. And in a nearby village, young boys are often called "Iskanda," a name almost never heard elsewhere in Iran. Iskanda, explains Lemberg-Karlovsky, means Alexander...