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...courses which the Music Department has seen fit to offer the undergraduate in recent years have, I believe, been very well attended. Even these few have now passed out of the catalogue and the gap which remains is unfortunate, to say the least, for all concerned. Hugh Van Dusen...
...unexpected death of Bernard A. De Voto '18 late Sunday night has created a gap among Adlai E. Stevenson's personal advisers, Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, said yesterday...
...replacement of the carburetor by a fuel-injection system by at least one automaker. Long used in aircraft and racing cars, fuel injection has been thought too tricky and expensive for stock cars. But the rapidly rising cost of the new four-barrel carburetors has closed the cost gap while several practical stock-car systems have been developed. In present carburetors, gasoline is mixed with air, then sucked into the cylinders through the manifold. With a fuel-injection system, small pumps attached to each cylinder spray the fuel-air mixture under pressure directly into the firing chamber. With better engine...
...project, coordinated by World University Service, a non-profit service organization, will attempt to bridge the gap between Indian university students and the villages in nearby areas...
...While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American-style, the result would have been ludicrous. Happily, he has adopted all the confidence of the cynical Englishman looking down upon fifteenth century France. He is also an amusing, if unnecessary, intermediary between play and audience; through...