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Living Fable. Sunstroke is the fable of an owl who cowers before a rising sun that means resurrection to the rest of the world but only terror to him. Pastoral tells of extraordinary provincial people who suspend themselves in goatskin bags every winter in a hibernation that is a living death...
Watson's action was requested by Cambridge Trust Co. and Harvard Trust Co. in order to avoid repetition of a January, 1960, run on those banks by college students. At that time, both banks were forced to suspend sale of Series E bonds temporarily...
...reflector of the world's biggest radio telescope is nothing more than a dish of chicken wire lining a 1,000-ft.-wide hole in the ground. Above it, three tall thin towers poke toward the sky. From the towers' tips, cables string out to suspend a tangle of girders over the center of the bowl. The complete contraption looks like the product of some errant giant playing with an outsize Erector set. But at its dedication in the hills south of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, last week, the great scope was tuned and ready-a sharp and farseeing...
...with the education committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people to discuss the plight of the Negro in Boston schools. The NAACP had vowed to march on School Committee offices if a meeting was not granted, and for the moment the Association has agreed to suspend all demonstrations...
...London Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys rejected any suggestion that Britain suspend British Guiana's self-governing constitution and take charge, but another 145 troops were airlifted to British Guiana "because of a deterioration in the situation." At week's end, the efforts of a British negotiator finally brought a truce between Jagan's government and the striking unions. But the racial differences have cut so deep that no easy end to the violence was expected...