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...many a Briton dickered with an old school tie, a high point of the year is the June day when he and his kind flock to Lords cricket grounds to watch the Eton-Harrow match. But last week another Eton-Harrow match was causing comment in London. In the oak-paneled rooms of Eton's drawing schools, 40 framed samples of schoolboy handwriting were competing for first honors in the ancient art of calligraphy...
Elsewhere, in lesser ways, other colleges and universities have seen the wisdom of cooperating. There is the Farmington Plan, under which 54 great libraries' plan their buying in common to avoid needless competition; the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies, where 24 universities do research together; Chicago's Midwest Interlibrary Center, serving eleven campuses of the Midwest; and Denver's Bibliographic Center for Research, serving the Rocky Mountain states...
Last week in the dark oak solemnity of a King's Bench courtroom, Mother Moo-moo's menu became the principal evidence in a libel action brought against Norcott and the Daily Mail by the proprietors of the real-life Moo Cow Milk Bars of London. Moo Cow Director Frederick Abdela, who told the court that he himself was often known as Mr. Moo, declined to see anything humorous about Norcott's article. It was, said Abdela, "a cynical and horrible criticism of a business which could only be taken...
...kids of atomic Oak Ridge, Tenn. (which swarms with children) were busy this week on a new enterprise: collecting fireflies for Dr. Bernard L. Strehler of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Strehler wants 100,000 lightning bugs and will pay 25? a 100 for living, healthy specimens...
...rear ends of Dr. Strehler's martyred fireflies may serve another purpose too. One of the chief concerns of the Oak Ridge laboratory is radiation sickness, the damage that atomic-age radiation (mostly gamma rays) does to living tissues. This damage is not mere "burning"; it is chiefly due to subtle chemical changes produced within the cells. When chemists have a better understanding of the relation of light to life, they stand a better chance of protecting atomic-age humans against gamma rays, which are "ultra-high-frequency light...