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From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...
Young Ed was no determined student. In college his grades were so poor that his classmates wondered how he ever lasted out four years at the University of Virginia. Among other things he flunked a course in government. But Ed had other attributes. He was an impressively handsome, exuberantly friendly...
Reel quotes an Army lawyer's comment : "Under such a principle, I suppose, even MacArthur should be tried." . Objection. A military commission of five U.S. generals* sat in judgment on Yamashita. They had no legal background. The commission seemed to feel that defense objections, made for the record, wasted...
In Night Flight, Pilot-Novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fine story of commercial aviation, an airline manager gazes gloomily out at a heavy night, in futile search for a lost plane. Absently he fingers a sheaf of teletypes on his desk. "These are the paths death...
Silence. Six hours later, at 2:50 a.m., Suzanne's boss, veteran pilot Captain de la Noue, sent a message that soon lost its meaning: "Having accomplished first part of flight normally, ready to land in five minutes at Santa Maria. Weather clear."