Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star: SNARLING "WOLF BOY" FOUND IN INDIA. All over the U.S. last week, newspapers printed such sensational headlines over wire service stories from New Delhi, describing in wide-eyed fascination the discovery of a "nine-year-old 'wolf boy' " with clawlike hands and a double set of upper-jaw incisors "who walks on all fours, wolfs down raw meat and laps water like an animal . . . There was some speculation the boy might have been reared by jackals, but [the attending doctor] said jackals often devour their young, while she-wolves are known to have strong maternal instincts...
Auditions for the student entertainment, which will make up most of the program, will be held in the Union Monday for freshmen and Tuesday for upper-classmen...
...intended. Last year, however, the strain proved too much for one lonely Anglophile who had strayed into History 142. As Owen was busily ripping into the British aristocracy, the student rose from his set, and pointing his finger dramatically, accused the professor of being unfair to the upper classes. Such incidents are indeed rare, and his lectures receive almost legendary accolades. Owen finds Harvard men "not a particularly docile lot, but reasonable when backed into a corner...
Thick Soup. Last week a TIME correspondent watched a 6-47 squadron at Upper Heyford, England get ready for a routine day's work. (The squadron had recently flown from Limestone Air Force Base in Maine to England in 4 hr. and 37 min.) First, on the day before take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew...
Last September the thirsty, aggressive Israelis struck out for water. They moved bulldozers north to the upper Jordan at Lake Hula, bordering Syria, and began constructing a nine-mile-long, parallel canal to divert part of Jordan's waters into a hydroelectric station, from there to be spilled back into the Jordan...