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Regardless of their college class, students matured by service life are able to adjust themselves to college life without being maneuvered about like puppets on a string. Their situation and that of 17-year-olds are not identical; one blanket ruling cannot always apply to both. The Faculty should reconsider their ruling. Beginning with the summer term, all veterans should be excused from required physical training...
...High Frequency radio ranges (VHF) on the airways. Their ultrashort waves can punch through most electrical disturbances, keep pilots from getting lost and slamming into mountains. Like television, VHF transmission is limited to the line of sight, necessitating a great many stations. But within two years CAA intends to blanket the country with...
Sometimes Lillian could glimpse the notorious "Widder Woman," dressed only in corset and drawers, prancing drunkenly to the pawnshop with the blanket she had stripped from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe...
Lauritz Melchior, heroic-size Metropolitan Opera tenor, arrived in Denver for a concert, sent his suit to the cleaner's, then found that his baggage had not come, had to receive the press toga-ed in a blanket...
...Cold Bedfellows. General Electric Co.'s new electric blanket may end squabbles over the temperature of the marriage bed. The metabolism (i.e., heat production) of men is 17% higher than that of women, thus they need less covering. G.E.'s solution: a heat control for each side...