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Most of the College will be pulling out of Cambridge for home by Saturday, but in the midst of the general exodus one caravan of three automobiles will be heading south to open the varsity golf season. "Home" for the nine men in the cars during the vacation will be the field house at the University of North Carolina...
Before dawn one day last week, a caravan of 31 shiny new cars rolled out of Los Angeles, heading east. Each car was a standard 1950 model; every major U.S. make except Buick and Pontiac was represented. The cars had been tuned to perfection (but'not souped up), for a grueling two-day, 750-mile test to see which car got the most mileage and efficiency from its fuel...
...Yugoslav Parliament, Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj last week boasted: "Relations with the United States, Great Britain and France have been improved . . . The U.S.S.R. has said that no country can exist unless it is under the thumb of a hegemonistic power . . . We have proved it can . . . While dogs bark, the caravan passes...
Recruiting for the expedition after the wealth of Cibola was brisk, and the viceroy was pleased. Most of the noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray...
Number eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue...