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...sure sign of spring when passing humanitarians plunge into the Charles after foundering dogs. Walter Gindele and his son did just this, from an indirect approach, yesterday when they walked over the thin-iced river in front of Dunster House to save an Irish Setter and a mongrel pup who had fallen through the crust...
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...TIME'S Diagramer and his researcher knew they were skating on thin ice but hoped no fish were looking. (The Rs on the first and third figures should have been Ls and vice versa...
...does not look the part. His scholarly forehead, his small, sparkling eyes, his massive and majestic beard set him apart from other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...
Last week, the Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, president of Fordham University, said it in words that everybody could understand. Said Father Gannon, "The fraud in the present campaign for educational inflation consists in spreading our national culture perilously thin and calling it 'democracy of education.' It consists in swelling the number of incompetents in American colleges and calling it 'equality of opportunity...