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McNamara feels that the tax question is at the root of Harvard-Cambridge friction. In an interview yesterday he described Harvard's mushroom-like growth since 1920 as an increasing burden on a depression-ridden industrial city...
Forty-eight hours later the bed-ridden Queen lying in Tirana's temporary Royal Palace could hear the roar of whole flights of planes overhead-planes that could not possibly be Albania's, since the country had only two. They dropped no bombs but leaflets fluttered down in the spring breeze announcing that "friendly" Italian troops were arriving that day to take over the country and "reestablish order, peace and justice." At four Albanian seaports, the nearest one (Durazzo) only 25 miles from Tirana, warships soon hove into sight, began bombarding. Troops were landed. A skirmish...
...cinematerial, Wuthering Heights might seem as farfetched a prospect as any book yet pillaged. It is crammed with neurotic, 19th-Century gloom, ridden with implications of incest, short on action, careless of conventional morality. As additional drawbacks, Mr. Olivier, entrusted with the crucial role of Heathcliff, boasts that he dislikes working for the movies and only does it for money; Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, preparing for their labors on Gunga Din, could barely be persuaded to leave their marathon backgammon game long enough to write a script. The script turned out brilliantly. Olivier's work as Heathcliff...
Last week, a solitary horseman buckety-bucked across the bridge to Treasure Island into the Fair grounds. V. H. Henderson had followed the race route, scrupulously refrained from changing horses until he had ridden 25 miles-consequently had won the booby prize (honorary) hands down. Seeing nothing funny in his place or predicament, Horseman Henderson angrily announced he would sue the Nocona Chamber of Commerce. Then he began looking for a way to get home...
Since the Crisis last September, this simple prayer has arisen daily at high noon throughout Britain, on the lips or in the hearts of countless Christians. In Britain, which has been perhaps more hag-ridden by fear of war than any other nation, the spread of this prayer unites Anglicans and Nonconformists as they have not been united in centuries. The sponsor of the 27-word petition is the League of Prayer and Service, which thereby has become England's biggest religious organization: no less than 2,500,000 people have enrolled for its prayer cards...