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...formally claim jurisdiction over Kingman Reef. Some 1,100 miles from Honolulu, this coral atoll is part of the Territory of Hawaii, is in the exact geographical centre of the Pacific. Its five-mile horseshoe is awash at high-tide except for one patch of sand. But the barrier breaks the combers, provides a quiet lagoon which is a mid-ocean lake, perfect for a plane base. There Pan American's six-man shore-crew has set up a cottage under the three palms. In the lagoon lies the 6,000-ton S. S. Northwind, with a radio direction...
...brought about an intolerable economic situation. The Independence Act was supported in Congress by two groups, one inspired by international altruism, the other inspired by national selfishness. Those inspired by selfishness were Congressmen, mostly from sugar-producing States, who wanted to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff barrier so as to get rid of business competitors. Into the law they wrote provisions which would institute a series of export taxes on Philippine goods shipped to the U. S.-the equivalent of a U. S. tariff-beginning at 5% in 1940 and mounting 5% a year. Since...
...solely from major sport ranks. The minor sport man and all those scores of students whose names never get in the headlines, but who have definite views which should be known, are completely shut out from a hearing in the court of Harvard athletics. The H.A.A. has built its barrier...
...question. The reputation of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) has suffered as a result of this cultural parochialism. Pushkin occupies a place in Russian literature similar to that of Shakspere in English, yet not even the brightest English-speaking schoolboys know anything about him. Difficulties of language are an obvious barrier to the understanding of Pushkin, but those barriers will certainly have to be surmounted, now that the Soviet Union is a world-power of pivotal importance, with cultural achievements within the short period of twenty years which exalt the Union to a position in the vanguard of nations...
Loitering through the beautiful coral islands of the Great Barrier Reef, they put in one day at a small island inhabited by the Wilson family, who lived on shell fishing. Oldest Daughter Lucy was breathlessly beautiful, listened wide-eyed and adoring to Author Flynn's descriptions of the magical outside world. But when she took him to a secluded pool and jumped in trustingly with nothing on, he decided that innocence disarms and went to say goodby. Lucy did not see why she could not go with him, swam out to the boat after them, scratched and bit while...