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Dates: during 1960-1960
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LIKE all Ethiopian royalty, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie traces his ancestry back to the match between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. His Semite-Hamite blood lines show in his stern jaw and aquiline nose. But in practical fact, his hold on the Ethiopian throne has been due less to ancestry than to his ability to outplot Ethiopia's best plotters...
Probably none of Russia's subs can yet match the U.S. Polaris missile subs' ability to fire from a submerged position, and the missiles they carry are presumed to be only short-range (300 miles) land-type types installed on regular subs whose conning towers were enlarged to make a firing platform for them. But the Russians are undoubtedly working on Polaris-like missiles, Blackman warned, and "it would be unwise to assume, especially in view of Soviet success in astral rocketry, that the U.S.S.R. is any less capable than other nations in the field of hydrodynamic rocketry...
...death, a new German army has taken its place as the pivot of Western defense in Europe. With half a million French troops tied down in Algeria, the Germans are already the strongest European force on the Continent. In two or three years time, the West German Bundeswehr will match if not surpass in might all the other NATO armies in Europe combined, including the powerful U.S. Seventh Army...
...campuses match Harvard for part-time teaching. Theologian Paul J. Tillich, 74, gets 25 to 30 speaking requests a week, is regularly gone from Thursday to Tuesday. Economist-Author John (The Affluent Society) Galbraith gets so many requests that he files them by continent. Schlesinger's schedule is so crowded that he leaves itineraries by the telephone so his children can inform callers, and incidentally themselves. Chemist George B. Kistiakowsky has not even been at Harvard for the past year but in Washington as President Eisenhower's science adviser. Budget Director Bell is now off to Washington-after...
Captain Nick Estabrook will again lead the varsity into the meet. The 137-lb. senior pulled one of the major surprises of the Williams match when he completely overwhelmed his opponent, Williams' star wrestler and captain...