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...exile Peter Verigin II is possible because he came later, is an alien; but an alien convicted of a crime may be deported after serving half his prison term. Last May, on the same day that 118 other Doukhobors were given three-year sentences for parading naked, Peter Verigin II was jailed for perjury. He hoped to be sent to Mexico (whose government would permit 10,000 Doukhobors to settle there) but Canada preferred to return him to the land of his birth. Canadian officials called his death-talk the usual plea of deportable persons, said...
When the U. S. Academies at West Point and Annapolis agreed last summer, after a three-year breach of athletic relations, to resume playing football with each other, they failed to settle the differences on which the breach was based. Navy like other colleges observes the three-year eligibility rule; at West Point cadets who have played three years of varsity football elsewhere are still eligible for the team. This gives West Point an obvious advantage in Army-Navy games. Navy has not won since 1921. In last week's game, closing the football season for the East, stout...
Meanwhile Nadezhda was plugging through a three-year course from which she expected to emerge the Director of a Soviet Rayon Trust. There was disagreement last week as to whether she graduated last July or would have graduated this December. She was last seen alive (by foreigners) on Sunday, Nov. 6, enjoying a performance at Moscow's Grand Theatre...
...questionnaires. The result of these psychological tests is a personality "photograph" which gives the Director otherwise unobtainable knowledge upon the student's attitude, disposition, and capacity. All students whose averages fall into the lowest quarter are invited to discuss with the personnel director a program of development. In a three-year period, such a group rison above the average, for by per cent of the students cooperate eagerly...
...sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure, he set off in 1893 on the three-year trip he described later in Farthest North. Leaving the From frozen solidly into the drifting ice pack, Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen headed north with dog sleds and kayaks to see how far they could get. Though they did not reach the Pole, they went 320 kilometers farther north than...