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...second period was rough enough, with three penalties called, two on Harvard, but despite several furries, neither team could manage a score. Again Picard's saves made the difference, with McNammara's stalwart defensive play con- tributing
...Table has long aroused college men both pro and con. The sight of a group of tuxedoed men eating better food on a raised platform has stirred the democratic ire, of many a student. The Table's opponents claim that it is a snobbish piece of showiness, while its defenders say that it is a good way of bringing together the House staff and undergraduates...
...that a free flow of profitable trade between the nations of the West was as great a bulwark to peace as arms. Somehow the unhealthy gap between U.S. exports and imports, that drained for eign nations of their gold and upset their currencies, had to be closed. But is con tinued U.S. aid the only way? In 1952 both the U.S. and Europe decided that a global WPA was no solution. Significantly, it is the Europeans themselves, chafing at the necessity for continued handouts and their dependency on every rise & fall of the American economy, who feel strong enough...
More appliances of all kinds will be needed. Says Westinghouse's Gwilym Price : "We think 1953 should be a year of con tinued high production in the appliance business. We expect the consumer to buy at the highest rate in history." In 1953 the long-heralded age of atomic power will dawn. Westinghouse will start operating the land-based prototype of the reactor it is building to power the sub marine Nautilus. Since the reactor could also be used to run a commercial power plant, the National Security Resources Board urged the Atomic Energy Commission to let U.S. industry...
...been dealt foul, Rolfe cursed the Church and went on cursing it energetically for the rest of his life-while remaining a Catholic. He borrowed a title, Baron Corvo, took it to Scotland and began to dine out in great pretension. The canny Scots, however, would not con. Soon he was back on his rent, and the landlord meant business. "They entered the Baron's bedroom," ran an account in the Aberdeen Free Press, "and the Baron was given ten minutes to dress and clear...