Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amount of classified material Pueblo would carry. But Bucher could not know that because he was not even cleared for access to the ship's supersecret "research" compartment. His request for either a twin-mount 20-mm. or single-mount 40-mm. cannons to defend his vessel went unheeded by Navy brass. Instead, he was issued two .50-cal. machine guns that would be useless against another ship. The basic problem, said Bucher, was money. The original $5,500,000 allocation for refitting his ship had been slashed...
...much since 1690. In that year, the English armies of William of Orange trounced the Irish Catholic troops of James II on the banks of the Boyne River and established Protestant ascendancy over all Ireland, including the six counties that constitute Ulster. Ever since-and particularly after Southern Ireland went its Catholic way-Ulster's leaders have been preoccupied with safeguarding the Christian Reformation. William's picture is still painted on the red brick wall of many a Protestant home in Belfast, along with slogans like "No Pope Here." Protestant extremists have taken lately to insulting Catholic women...
Kenneth R. Kaufman '69, chairman of the HPC, said that he had not made his decision yet, but that the three who went would be members of the "current" HPC, i.e. the one elected a year ago. He said he was choosing among the "few most involved" in the HPC discussion of the ROTC issue...
...Lipton went back to fifteenth century manuscripts and dug up terms for collections of birds and beasts and types of men which he wants to bring back into English usage. There is poetry in the sudden realization of a murmuration of starlings or an incredulity of cuckolds, Lipton says. Both of these, and of course an exaltation of larks, have credentials as good as a school of fish, Lipton points...
When a relative gave me the book, I went into ecstasies. When I tried some of the terms on my friends, they only smiled wanly. Ah well, as someone once wrote in recommending a murder mystery, if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like. PETER D. KRAMER