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Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile, runs the old standpatter against liberalizing practically anything. Witness Britain's venerable Oxford Union, an all-male preserve for 142 years until it banned de sexo segregation in 1963. Just four years later, the university debating society has elected a girl president. She is pert, brunette Seraldine Jones, 21, daughter of a Liverpool schoolmaster and now heiress to an office once held by William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and Ted Heath. There'll be no nonsense about a counterattack either. "I trust that men who find...
...shot put, Harvard's Dick Benka amazed everyone with a 56'11" winning toss. Benka's throw was a half-inch longer than the five-year-old Cage mark and more than two feet over the big junior's best previous throw (54'6"). Army's Dan Seebart, who beat Benka for first in last Year's Heps, did not compete Saturday...
Little more than an hour after the experiment began, Physicist Enrico Fermi performed several rapid calculations on a three-inch slide rule, then turned to the 41 scientists gathered with him on a balcony. "The reaction," announced Fermi, "is self-sustaining." In celebration, the scientists broke out a bottle of Chianti and drank it from paper cups. Thus, in a squash court on Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, the promise of an atomic age was born 25 years ago last week...
That feud centered on the FTC's decision to smoke nonfilters down to a finger-burning 23 mm. (about ½ of an inch); the filters were puffed to a bare ⅛ of an inch before the filter wrapping. The industry protested that the average smoker tosses the butt away at 30 mm. (about 1½ in.). The FTC itself was divided 3 to 2 on whether to make the butt 23 mm. or 30 mm., which would generally lower the levels but make for more uniform testing because most filter and non-filter types could then be smoke-tested...
Under Editor Luman H. Long, a staff of eight put out the nearly two- inch-thick book. About half of the Almanac is carried over from previous years; the rest consists of new facts and figures. The 1968 edition, for instance, contains the zip code for all communities of more than 2,500 population and color pictures of the flags of all nations, including those of newly independent Guyana (red, green and yellow) and Botswana (white, black and blue). Even so, fact-hungry readers are never satisfied. When the Almanac tries to drop some marginalia, such as the gestation period...