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Berg has three possible starters for the other forward, Jim Gabler, John Pankey, and Dave Skinner. Gabler, captain of the Freshman soccer team last fall, was a star bucket man at Exeter last fall, Pankey, from Montana, showed both heels as a cross country star this fall. His duties will be as a spitfire, close-to-target escort for his long range bombing teammates...
Science International. Actually, UNESCO's $100,000 was just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...
...Drop in the Bucket." Never had Nationalist China more anxiously craved a sign that the U.S. recognized and responded to China's critical hour. What Chinese got, by way of a sign last week, was Secretary of State George Marshall's testimony before a Senate committee that, in his opinion, China would need economic support at the rate of $20 million a month, beginning next April and continuing for some 15 months...
...little, too late. Some grim Chinese, who compared Marshall's sum to the $500 million a month he proposed to spend to buttress Western Europe, decided that the time had come to write off the U.S. entirely. Said Chinese Vice President Sun Fo: "A drop in the bucket.. . . I've always had a hidden suspicion that American friendship was not dependable...
Administrative officials referred to their ruling of last year which prevented the installation of washing machines in the Houses as a cooperative measure. "Jest goes for show yer," saf da prominent maintenance expert, putting down his bucket of elbow-grease, "these new-faugled devices jest don't compare to old elbow-grease...