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...tossed our youngest into her stroller, handed our boy the fishpoles, met two friends and took off-on foot. We walked about two miles to the local reservoir, sniffing Nature and listening to our shoes flapping happily on the old narrow road. When we got there, we spread a blanket and a lunch, and annoyed a few fish until suppertime...
...social sciences ... I believe that a teacher should not teach with a bit in his teeth controlled by any organization able thereby to control what he teaches and omits from his teaching and with a record of exercising such control . . . Today, anti-communism is actively fostered as a blanket political weapon, and pressure is being brought on educational institutions to dismiss uncritically actual or alleged Communists ... I have accordingly changed my stand, and it now is: No teacher should be refused a position or fired on the basis of his membership in any organization; but hiring or dismissal should...
...blanket finish, with little more than a length separating all four: Mrs. Royce G. Martin's Halt, J. A. Kinard Jr.'s Johns Joy, Greentree's Wine List and -fourth-Old Rockport. Hard-Loser Cliff Mooers had a grin on his face. Said he: "We can afford to lose this...
Four of the six Crimson golfers scored 76 or better. Bob Matson and Dick O'Keeffe, playing together in the second foursome, both scored 72. Bill Rickenbacker and Herb Mce won their individual matches with 76 and combined to win their best two out of four. Harvard's blanket win was completed by Jack Denton and Sam Seager. They scored individual victories and the third combined...
...next hour, firemen poured water on the tractor and Billy from relays of tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...