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creep in to blot the freshly written page...
Ordinary hazards of driving are compounded in New Jersey, where meteorology, topography and industrial air pollution often produce dense fogs that suddenly blot out the road ahead. Fog is so familiar a problem in some sections of the state that permanent electric signs have been erected along the New Jersey Turnpike to flash warnings of fog and to cut speed limits. But New Jersey motorists may soon have a clearer view. By borrowing a discovery used to produce water in Chile, state transportation officials hope to be able to sweep long stretches of highway clear...
...united four colonies into the nucleus of modern Canada, the whole nation is caught up in a yearlong birthday party, whose centerpiece is Expo 67, the admirable international exhibition that opened in Montreal last week (see MODERN LIVING). Expo's space-age shapes will once and for all blot out the world's clichés about Canada: Mounties bracing blizzards, Eskimos crouched over a kodlik swapping wives, bluff Quebeckers doffing berets to passing priests. Expo 67 spectacularly dramatizes Canada's achievements. If there remains an undercurrent of self-doubt even amid the celebrations, the reason must...
...three of four articles that don't deal with games, the only really notable one is Tom LaFarge's Ibis-Blot introduction. The Ibis-Blot introduction is the prose found under the masthead, usually two or three incomprehensible paragraphs. The masthead page has always been a bastion of mysterious tradition-who is that smug guy passed out on the keg, anyway? LaFarge has made charming personalities out of the three traditional figures, Ibis, Jester, and Blot. At least we get a hint as to who they are any way they are there. LaFarge has exploited the Castle mystique...
...There's no single tone to the letters we get," Bethell says, "I noticed last year that the Yale Alumni Magazine was loaded with attacks on Stoughton Lynd all from the old Blue class of '11 type, calling him a blot on the scutcheon of the Bulldog. The McNamara letters ran about two to one against the rowdy little students, but most of the best ones were in their defense. The greatest of them all was by Waldo Pierce '07 ripping into the "Barbarians at Washington...