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...latest letter from a top physicist friend in Denmark or England, reporting a hot tip just telephoned from Harvard, or commenting on a physical journal fresh from a Japanese press. Privy to this latest scientific,gossip ("the lifeblood of physics," Oppenheimer calls it), his students felt themselves in the vanguard of advancing knowledge...
Acting on McWhorter's orders, University police turned back the first few Democrats at the door. Yard cops told a vanguard of 25 students that "No one is coming in after 12 o'clock. We're closing in an hour...
...When I Became King." Last week's melancholy debate was a sort of rehearsal for a big African conference to be held in London this September. Already, the vanguard of the African delegates had arrived. He was the Honorable Oba Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give...
Some 180 Class members have arranged to wear full fireman's regalia, with a ten-piece fireman's band and an old-style fireman's hand pump in the vanguard of the procession...
...courteous" appearance of his hero, General Lee, with the sullen demeanor of the frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot to horrible "Southern tunes...