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...poll of the seven House secretaries revealed that the "squeeze-play" to meet the College room shortage had been almost completed but at a new compulsory number of 16 for all but Adams, which was required to absorb only 12 extra students...
Today the booters get a taste of a modernized coaching plan. Instead of running through plays and scrimmages this afternoon the team will watch movies of several British professional soccer games as MacDonald figures they may absorb some of the finer points of the game while resting the day before a game...
...announcing the House plan to absorb 140 of the gym dwellers, Robert B. Watson '87, associate dean of the College, stated that it would be from ten days to two weeks before the multiple room changes could be made. Men eligible for the Houses will be moved from the Yard and the outside dormitories such as Claverly. Their vacated rooms will be turned over to the landless students...
...eventually rank in importance with the finding that pernicious anemia is caused in part by an iron deficiency in red blood cells, which can be corrected by liver extract. Perhaps a cure for leukemia may be found in some substance not yet discovered that will enable white cells to absorb more zinc...
...bomb-tamers of Los Alamos had a ticklish assignment: to make their bomb explode, but gently, in slow motion. How they solved the problem has not been fully explained. Uranium piles are kept from reacting too fast by inserting cadmium rods into the graphite. The rods absorb neutrons and check the action. The more cadmium, the slower the pile percolates. Some similar method may be controlling the tame plutonium...