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Toward the East. Some scientists have a sneaking suspicion that Velikovsky is pulling their legs. No object, however large, that barely grazed the earth could materially affect its period of revolution. And if the sun did literally "stand still upon Gibeon"-i.e., if the earth suddenly stopped turning-no human being would have lived to tell about it. Every loose object on earth, including Joshua, the oceans and the atmosphere, would have continued the normal rotating movement, and thus taken off toward the east faster than the speed of sound. Velikovsky seems to be aware of some of these difficulties...
Their work may lead to a revision of undergraduate room rates along the same principle that the floor will not affect the cost of a room. At present, prices on the second and third floors are higher in the Houses and the Yard...
Last week Hargrave, 51, produced a long and weighty report to show that countless industrial workers have hearing defects, and that many result from noisy working conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing...
...obvious counter-measure would be for men to affect the dress and characteristics of women. And yet, I think for all the love a man had for a particular woman or women in general he would never undertake this method of pointing out to her, her foolishness. Men understand that what women most approve in them is their masculinity is there anything that we as men have said or done that has led women to doubt that it is their femininity which we chiefly admire in them...
...purpose of the new program is not to replace the present faculty advisory system, but to supplement it. Its emphasis will be on the social rather than the scholastic side on College life. According to one of the undergraduate advisors, the system will affect "an easier integration between the Yard and the Houses...