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...Harvard identity, but a Radcliffe girl is one of its top officers. Despite the fabled incompatibility of 'Cliffies and Harvardmen, Radcliffe's class of '49 reports that 42% of its husbands are Harvardmen. Sighed a recent Harvard Alumni Bulletin: "One can only hope that when the millennium comes and the two noble institutions become one, they will let us call it Harvard, rather than Radcliffe, University...
...since last summer, when a reporter spotted a suspicious equatorial rotundity in French Film Star Brigitte Bardot, have the French papers given her approaching term much less than millennium treatment. For a while, confronted with testy denials of her pregnancy, the papers played the story almost as placidly as they did President Eisenhower's tour and the trouble in Algeria. But by mid-December they could contain themselves no more...
...mountain, he left some Bibles in Chimpay, and the Indians began to study the Torah and live by it. Eleven years later, a Chilean Jew named Santiago Martinez visited Chimpay, gave the Indians real instruction in Judaism, and told them that the children of Israel had completed their millennium of suffering for having forsaken Jehovah and were soon to return to Zion to await the coming of the Messiah. The Araucanians observed Jewish dietary laws, feast and fast days, separated men and women for worship, even broke down their tribe into classic biblical castes. They elected a leader, one Luis...
...novelty, consumer credit caused no traffic jam in the stores. Reason: the hard-to-get goods in greatest demand, such as automobiles, refrigerators and TV sets, were conspicuously missing from the credit list. And lest the Russian shopper think that the consumer millennium is just around the corner, Premier Khrushchev, on his way back to Moscow from Peking, told a Vladivostok audience that the U.S.S.R. has no intention of trying to equal U.S. automobile output. "We will use automobiles more rationally than the Americans do," he said. "We are going to establish taxi pools, where people can use cars when...
...that warmed France played no favorites, also shed its benign rays on Germany's Rhine and Moselle vineyards. The head of the Wurzburg Wine Producers Association said: "I would not even be surprised if my grandchildren or their children called this wine the wine of the millennium." Said a less historically minded producer: "This will be real saufwein (boozing wine)." The Germans rate wine quality by the degree of sugar content in the grapes before fermentation. By this standard, the predicted sugar content of the 1959 harvest will make German wines, like those of France, the best produced...