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...missions on trips around her islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep the channels were and how wide the sandy beaches, where in the crystal water lay hidden coral reefs and where lay clear passage at low tide. The Navy borrowed books, charts, fauna and sand. Alice Little settled back to her quiet spinster existence...
...hero and narrator is Arthur Miles, only son of a poor, Nonconformist family, who finds his vocation for science by reading H. G. Wells and looking at the evening star through a toy telescope. By arduously won scholarships, he finds himself at King's College, London, peering at crystals and within reach of the Royal Society ("my Mecca and my Westminster and my Rome"). A vision of sanctity comes to Miles (after he has correctly predicted the structure of a crystal he had never seen) like those of "the mystics who have described the experience of being...
...such a long term proposal as this, it is necessary to have a very clear and accurate crystal ball to estimate expenses and future conditions. Harris thinks that the current amount of loans needed is about a billion and a half dollars per year, and by 1970 about two and a half billion. The apparent enormity of the loans necessary does not rule out the plan on paper, whatever actual fund-raising difficulties (the University could attest that there are many) might be. When the general picture of American private debt is considered, however, these figures do not seem...
...mock Churchill's famed crack that the Cross of Lorraine was the heaviest he had to bear, he was presented with a cross carved out of pure crystal and weighing three pounds. No sly repayment of old wounds was intended (A great leader, De Gaulle once wrote, "only slightly tastes the savor of his revenge, because action absorbs him entirely"). Instead, removing his two-starred kepi, De Gaulle gave Churchill the standard French embrace of a peck on both cheeks...
Thomas E. Petri of Fond du Lac, Wisc. and Matthews Hall was elected President of the Harvard Freshman Union Committee last night. Richard Crystal was elected vice-President and treasurer and Peter A. Beinstalk was elected Secretary. Student Council representatives are Mahamoud M. Shabander, John J. Harris, Harry M. Lindquist, and Howard J. Phillips...