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...oak forest, In the waste land, doe is laid: White rushes over her. Lady beautiful as jade...
SCARCELY a day passes in the city of Dublin that dozens of citizens and visitors do not climb the oak staircase within the nearly four-centuries-old Trinity College Library. They enter the majestic, arched Long Room, pass along the galleries to a desk in the center, part a pair of curtains to peer into a glass-enclosed display case. They are there to see Ireland's most precious treasure, the Book of Kelts...
...girls chosen include Deborah H. of Whitman Hall and Williams- History and Literature; Judith H. of Briggs Hall and Worcester, Helen H. Arnold, of Cabot Hall Oak Ridge, Tenn., Mathematics; B. DuBois, of Gilman House and Conn., History and Literature. Also elected were Ann Gale, of Cabot and Glencoe, III., Biochemistry; S. Garelick, of Cambridge, History Literature; Judith L. Goldstein, of Center, Social Relations; Janet Martin of Holmes Hall and N.Y., History and Literature; C. Merton, of Cambridge and on-Hudson, N.Y., Social Relations; Patricia N. Wagar, of Holmes Hall Madison, N.J., History; and Susan Warram, of Boston, American History...
...Atomic Energy Commission usually hates to tell about accidents to nuclear reactors. Reason: the public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The film shows dozens of scientists and technicians working for nine months to patch two small holes that had been burned in the 5/16-in. zirconium shell of the reactor's fiercely radioactive core...
...first of these eleven short stories, a man and his wife, living a life of crushing respectability in an awful welfare-state township, pray to the Virgin to be relieved of their childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales...