Mexico City Paradox Brings Old World and Modern Life
Iris Ungel describes Mexico City as a paradox where ancient cathedrals and 60,000 taxis coexist with gleaming Pan Am skyscrapers and sombreroed workers. The piece contrasts bustling streets, diverse residents, street vendors, and rooftop huts with penthouse glamour, underscoring a city rich in history yet relentlessly modern.
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Iris Ungel
Mexico City
Mexico
Tierra
New York
Beware of the subway con man exploiting student gullibility
A student recalls two encounters six weeks apart with a man claiming to have lost his wallet and commutation card. He asked for $230 for transportation and even named a Long Island town. The student helped once, then warned peers to beware of similar coinncoincidences and scams. The letter is dated February 23, 1961.
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Cnet
Ctc
Long Island
Cam
Blue Eye
Council For Atomic Studies at Columbia Grows Amid Debates
Columbia University houses the Council For Atomic Studies founded in 1957. Executive director Christopher Wright says its goal is to foster collaboration among scientists and humanists to identify and study problems of the atomic age. The council reviews major tech developments, hosts discussions, and issues reports while receiving endowments from foundations and funding faculty research.
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Columbia University
Council For Atomic Studies
Christopher Wright
Council
Rockefeller Foundation
Carnegie Corporation
Bernard Barber
Barnard
Russian Don Quixote film at 55th Street Playhouse reviewed
The latest Russian production of Don Quixote now at the 55th Street Playhouse is praised for authentic settings and strong photography. Nikolai Cherkassov embodies Don Quixote with poignant restraint while Yuri Tolubeyev as Sancho Panza delivers humor, though dubbing gives him a Cockney feel.
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Don Quixote
55Th Street Playhouse
Cervantes
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Alonso Quijana
Sancho Panza
Crimea
Castile
la Mancha
Nikolai Cherkassov
Sions
Sancho
Mr. Cherkassov
Yuri
Quijotezado
Vacation Winter Ends as Sun Tans Fade
A narrator laments the passing of vacation daylight and reflects on intersession fading into memory. The piece recalls eleven days in Florida battling tentacled jellyfish and choosing tanning lotions while improvising a surfing routine and stocking up shields for peeling noses.
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Florida
Fade-Out Summer in a Snowbound City
Newspaper sellers hawked their wares with exuberant sales talk as headlines teased an extra thirty seven inches of snow in New York. Tourists smiled, then sun faded to regret, while the city returned to winter and the slow fade of seasons.
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Cortez
Hidalgo
Diaz
Mexico City
New York City
New York
Campus groups plan March model UN and debates
March events draw students to the Model General Assembly sponsored by the Collegiate Council for the United Nations. The HUAC supporters appear at 30 colleges including Harvard Yale and Wisconsin. Bowdoin hosts lectures on religious experience under the theme Church and College.
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General Assembly
Collegiate Council For the United Nations
General Assembly of the
U.N
Economic Committee
Congo
Students’ Committee For Congressional Autonomy
House Un-American Activities Committee
Harvard
Yale
Antioch
Chicago
Holy Cross
Wisconsin
Smith
HUAC
Church and College
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National Aeronautic and Space Administration
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