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There are prizes for writing Attic , for collecting books, for interest in soil mechanics. awards are open to everyone, although some are limited to men and one to men living in Lowell House, Perhaps Harvard achieves one fleeting moment of equality at Commencement. Both the young man who learned to write Latin at Milton and the hydraulics expert from the Bronx High School of Science get praised and paid for their efforts...
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...
...Soil Conservation Service...
Smugglers' Den. The weapons are economic blockade and psychological pressure. At issue is Spain's rankling sense of being the only European nation with a foreign colony on its soil. This anachronism must end, says Madrid, and Gibraltar must be returned to Spain, to which it belonged in 1704, when a sudden British-Dutch attack captured the fortress in three days...
Botanist Norman Taylor, editor of the excellent Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, feels that plant advertising should specifically note which areas of the country are suitable for each species of plant or tree. Most reputable catalogues nowadays do in fact list preferred zones and soil conditions. But in general, Taylor points out, "people have been given the impression that spruce and hemlock and firs will thrive in the prairie regions west of the Mississippi. And you should be very careful about what rhododendrons you buy. The beautiful Rhododendron Maximum, for example, does well in New England and New York...