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...decade French-led Indians had whooped down on outlying New England farms, and the colonial defenders had done little to stop the raids. In the summer of '55 Rogers' New Hampshire unit was attached to an offensive aimed at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. The British colonials had struck no effective blow, had no notion of enemy strength. Rogers volunteered for missions into the wilderness, returned with the required intelligence-and news that his party had shot up a French canoe. It was the first offensive action of a sorry campaign...
Sparkplugs & Silver. The majority of the U.S.'s new sailors are a happy, capable crew who are willing to suffer minor discomforts for the sake of new discoveries. Waiting for them are thousands of miles of unexplored regions-the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, San Francisco's Bay, New England's coves, New Orleans' delta. Wherever they go, they find others like themselves, eager to share possessions and experiences. Marinas, yachtels and boatels welcome them with everything from ice to beer to sparkplugs to diapers. Cruising families suddenly find that children are better behaved than they were...
...week that, because of "recent developments abroad.'' the regents changed their minds. Though Carlson won his fight for a $250 million bond issue last fall, it was over the opposition of both the regents and the governor. He battled hard to keep the liberal-arts campus of Champlain College within the university system, but the campus was turned over to the Air Force as a SAC base...
...late afternoon the Sixth Fleet had sailed: from Cannes the 60,000-ton supercarrier Forrestal, from Naples the 45,000-ton battleship Wisconsin, from Leghorn the carrier Lake Champlain, from Villefranche and Marseille the heavy cruisers Salem and Des Moines. With them steamed a swarm of destroyers, transports, tankers. Under leathery Fleet Commander Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, the atomic-armed Sixth was eastward bound to back up and buck up little Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...live on, but the veterans managed. In twelve years almost 8,000,000 took some sort of training under the program. For those who could not qualify as regular students, Brown University set up a special school. Yale established an institute of collegiate study; New York State created Champlain College at Plattsburg. Such women's colleges as Skidmore and Bryn Mawr opened their doors to men for the first time...