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...Base. During the coming winter, the first under-ice base will get a thorough test. Named "Fist Clench" (officially Site 2), it is high on the icecap, 200 miles east of the Air Force base at Thule...
...audiences became bigger and more demonstrative. Keeping a man-killing schedule of daylight speaking tours and nights of travel by train and airplane, he seemed to live on chicken sandwiches and cat naps grabbed in moving automobiles. He explained his knack for dropping off to sleep easily: "You just clench your back teeth." On his six-week, 20,000-mile campaign tour, he astonished his staff by gaining...
...name of William J. Clonch, though it may mean little to the average undergraduate, is surely familiar to three other members of the University, George 10. Moore, Richard W. Foster, and Morrill 10. Champion. Clench is, of course, the Curator of Mollusks. Moore, Foster, and Champion are, naturally, Associates in Mollusks...
...Anything for Money." Jack worked hard, made regular payments on his forgery debt (by last week he had reduced the balance to $105.34), and seemed to be an exemplary family man. In his business he was erratic and clench-fisted, but he had a weakness for children, often selling 10? ice-cream cones to the local kids for a nickel. There were other inconsistencies in the picture. Not long ago, Jack stalled a pickup truck in the path of an oncoming train, collected from his insurance company. Last Labor Day a mysterious gas explosion damaged the Crown-A; the insurance...
Public anxiety was aroused, he explained, because of recent scare stories abouta giant Pacific small, introduced by the Japanese into Guam and Saipan for food purposes during the war. The Pacific snails multiplied like rabbits but their danger to crops has been over-rated, Clench said...