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When slight, precocious, 16-year-old Freshman "Murray" Butler got his first glimpse of Columbia in 1878, it was a college with 227 students and a little cluster of buildings on one city block. Last week, when 83-year-old Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler handed in his resignation as president of Columbia, the university could boast 30,000 resident students, assets worth $231,561,407, a reputation as one of the biggest and finest universities in the world...
...Bosquel was once a cluster of peas ant homes in fruitful Picardy. Serving its 244 villagers were a church, a mairie (town hall), a schoolhouse, a grocery, a carpenter's shop. One day last year the gale of battle ripped through Le Bosquel. Now only mounds of rubble and white stone doorsteps remain, lying in the tall grass like overgrown gravestones...
...Professor Shapley has noticed that spiral galaxies have many star clusters and star clouds - a sign of youth, not age. A star cluster, he observed, is unstable. As it rotates, its stars, revolving at various speeds around the cluster's nucleus, are torn apart by "shearing forces" which break up the cluster and disperse the stars evenly through the galaxy...
Dropped in loose clusters of 14, or "amiable" clusters of 38, the finless oil-bombs are exploded by a time fuse four or five seconds after landing. Thereupon M-69s become miniature flamethrowers* that hurl cheesecloth socks full of furiously flaming goo for 100 yards. Anything these socks hit is enveloped by clinging, fiery pancakes, each spreading to more than a yard in diameter. Individually, these can be extinguished as easily as a magnesium bomb. But a single oil-bomb cluster produces so many fiery pancakes that the problem for fire fighters, like that of a mother whose child...
...four cities, among the six largest in Japan.* B-29 commanders insisted that this was not "area bombing" of the sort practiced by the British in Europe, but rather "precision-area bombing," with the target area outlines carefully drawn, and every effort made to drop every aimable cluster of M69 incendiary bombs within that area...