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Completed examination polls can be left at the CRIMSON office, 14 Plympton St., any time today. Blank polls will be available there. Radcliffe students can obtain polls at the bells desk in each brick dormitory, until lunch time...
...Navy weaponeers used to thinking in terms of quick-firing 5-in. guns or huge Polaris missiles, the assignment at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington was far out of line. Their task: to make a gun that could be fired point-blank inside the human head-not to kill but to save. The unusual technical feat required even more unusual ammunition: a piece of hair only one two-hundredth of an inch in diameter and one-fourth of an inch long, which had to pierce something even less resistant than a toy balloon, and do it with such delicate...
...each to witness the fight on closed-circuit TV, started filing out in bitter disgust. "It was the stinkingest exhibition I ever saw in my life," said one. At Brooklyn's Fox Theater, 3,800 people did not even have that to say; their screen went blank seconds after the fight started. Screaming for their money back, they staged a melee that brought 50 New York City cops...
...Northern employer may be expected to point with righteous pride to the fair practice laws of his state. Yet the abuse of these laws was brought to light by recent government investigations in the state of New York. These revealed that although no blank was left for race, nationality or religion on forms submitted to employment bureaus, many employers were skirting this by placing a small code, N.F.U. (not for us) in the corner of the forms...
...Communist-lining Barisan Socialists, an extremist group that splintered from Lee's own People's Action Party in 1961, had sought to turn the referendum into a protest vote. The Socialists predicted that 70% of the ballots would be left blank, and Peking tried to buy a few votes by dangling hints that it would resume its once large rubber purchases if Singapore stayed out of the new federation. But it was Lee who wound up with 71% of the vote; barely 25% of the 561,559 ballots were blank...