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...held as follows: Group Time Exam Date I MWF at 8 Sat., Jan. 19 II MWF at 9 Thurs., Jan. 24 III MWF at 10 Fri., Jan. 18 IV MWF at 11 Mon., Jan. 21 V MWF at 12 Wed., Jan. 30 VI MWF at 1 Tues., Jan. 29 VII MWF at 2 Sat., Jan. 26 VIII MWF at 3 Sat., Jan. 19 IX MWF at 4 Sat., Jan. 19 X TTS at 8 Tues., Jan. 22 XI TTS at 9 Mon., Jan. 28 XII TTS at 10 Fri., Jan. 25 XIII...
...impromptu Biblical quiz. Next it was a session with Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, who nodded approvingly as Joshua recited from the Torah. On the big day, in Jerusalem's cavernous Yeshurun synagogue, Joshua marked his confirmation by intoning in near flawless Hebrew Verses 40 through 50, Chapter VII of First Kings, later received warm congratulations at a 100-guest luncheon in his honor at the King David Hotel...
What England's Order of Merit lacks in tradition-having been founded a mere 60 years ago by King Edward VII-it makes up in exclusiveness: only 24 living Britons at any one time are entitled to write O.M. after their names. Filling two vacancies left by the deaths of Historian G. M. Trevelyan and Portraitist Augustus John, Queen Elizabeth named goateed Architect Sir Basil Spence, 55, rebuilder of the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral, and Aviation Pioneer Sir Geoffrey deHavilland, 80, whose company turned out swarms of Mosquito fighter-bombers during World War II. to join the distinguished company...
...build military aircraft for the Kaiser. Baron von Richthofen and his Flying Circus battled to fame in Fokker triplanes. After Germany's defeat, Anthony Fokker slipped back into The Netherlands, taking along six trainloads of tools and aircraft parts, and set up a new plant. His dependable F-VII monoplane spawned the rise of commercial airlines in the 1920s; it was in a modified F-VII that Admiral Byrd made his historic flight over the North Pole...
...world, and the interest of Russia herself, cannot be promoted by Russian settlements upon any part of the American continent." The second threat loomed up at the congress of European powers at Verona, Italy, in the autumn of 1822. In Spain a revolution had forced the tyrannical Ferdinand VII (Ferdinand the Unbeloved) to accept a liberal constitution. Bent on preserving absolutism, France and the Holy Alliance powers-Russia. Austria and Prussia-decided at Verona to intervene in Spain to crush the revolution...