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...will make it, has drafted plans to build a deep-water port in Maine's Casco Bay. That port is even closer to the North Slope than Seattle is. No Alaskan oil is expected to be delivered to any of the "lower 48" states before 1972 at the earliest. But its existence may provide Congress with the reasons it needs to mate some major changes in the oil industry's present privileges...
...pleasure to read your long and richly appreciative article on Nabokov. I feel honored that you should credit me with some incidental part in the American recognition of his work. But full credit for the earliest sponsorship of his English writing should go to his first publisher in this country, James Laughlin IV, of New Directions. While enjoying the vogue that culminates in your story, let us not forget the special insight and the generous risks that this small firm has exercised on behalf of unrecognized talent...
...Arrangements would be made for "the earliest possible release of prisoners of war on both sides...
Although admittedly the best squad in New England last year, the Crimson had trouble advancing competitors any further than the earliest playoff rounds, and although John Levin captured the individual singles crown, Harvard lost the team title by a single point to Amherst...
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1888, of Italian parents, Ungaretti was in his twenties before World War I broke out. He wrote his first poems in the trenches of Carso, on the French border, and published Il Porto Sepolto (The Submerged Seaport) in 1916. These earliest poems, laconic and unpunctuated, implied from the beginning a break with d'Annunzio and the traditions of Italian poetry. Glauco Cambon's study of Ungaretti in the Columbia series recalled the war poems as "flashes of insight bursting through the shell of established prosodic convention to capture the immediacy of inner experience." And Ungaretti...