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Grey Path. Twice in recent years, Camiguin's biggest active volcano, a many-cratered, 5,620-ft. monster named Hibok-Hibok (Visayan for hot and bubbling), had gotten angry-once in 1948, again in 1950 when 68 islanders were killed. Always Hibok-Hibok gave warning-two or three days of ominous huffing & puffing that gave Camiguenos time to retreat to safer reaches of the island, or even to take boats to Mindanao, seven miles to the south...
...over two and one half years, Father Leonard Feeney has been taking his "cause" to the people in similar weekly appearances on the Boston Common. His harangues have gotten more bitten and vitriolic every Sunday, and his audience, larger. His "cause" is to "rid our city of every coward liberal Catholic, Jew dog, Protestant brute, and 33rd degree Mason who is trying to suck the soul from good Catholics and sell the true faith for greenbacks...
...young Shah apparently expected Mossadegh to quit: Hadn't he come home emptyhanded? Instead, Mossadegh talked away for 5½ hours, over many cups of tea, describing British stubbornness, U.S. sympathy, Egyptian friendship. He and Premier Nahas Pasha had gotten to be real buddies on his visit to Egypt. The Shah next day had one word to describe the session: "Exhausting." But 72-year-old Mohammed Mossadegh, no longer the fainting wonder, was full of beans...
...harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so -we might after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labors. These four, in one day, killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms...
Explains Dr. Jones: "A great many educators have felt for a long time that emphasis on teaching techniques has gotten out of hand in this country. Undergraduates who plan to enter the teaching profession have been spending an increasing amount of their time on the sort of subjects that are facetiously referred to as 'blackboard engineering.' . . . In some cases they spent more time studying teaching methods than they did studying the subject they would be called upon to teach...