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...became the seventh president of Harvard. During his 30-year term of office he corresponded regularly with his counterparts at Yale, sagely advising them on matters of College administration. He warned President Thomas Clap of Yale against putting gutters on his buildings because the students would undoubtedly clog them up with refuse. He also advised against lining Yale's windows with lead, writing Clap that the students would probably steal the lead and sell...
...Paris in the uneasy spring of 1936. Sitdowns close the factories, riots clog the streets, a Popular Front cabinet maneuvers for its life. To a Jules Remains or a Jean Paul Sartre this is the ideal setting for a lugubrious social novel. But not to Marcel Aymé. As a satirist by profession -and currently the best in France-Aymé gives 1936 France his usual deft, dry treatment...
More hydrogen keeps appearing to replace that which condenses. Galaxies are never so thick that they clog the universe, for the addition of new hydrogen makes space "stretch" more & more. Adjacent galaxies move apart, and when they have moved enough, new galaxies form out of new hydrogen in the newly stretched space between them...
...once one of the nation's most finished second-story men, was arrested (for the 32nd time) in Los Angeles. His crime: milking pay telephones. He had been extracting $10 a day from 100 telephones by plugging their coin-return slots with paper, letting nickels, dimes and quarters clog up inside until he came to collect them...
Despite frenzied attempts by the Arab world to clog the machinery of the United Nations, the General Assembly voted last Saturday to partition Palestine and give the Jewish people a homeland. The thirty-three-to-thirteen ballot brought truculent howls from the delegates of six Arab states and the threat of a Holy War to preserve the sacred sterility of Palestine's soil. With the passage of this first important legislative decree the United Nations reaches a vital turning point in its history...