Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only three weeks after the death of M.I.T. Freshman Thomas Clark during his Deke fraternity initiation (TIME, Feb. 27), the University of Texas (enrollment 15,500) ran into some hazing trouble of its own. Wearing burlap bags, Delta Sigma Phi pledges had been ordered to drink mineral oil, play wheelbarrow, i.e., walk around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result...
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...delta-wing Mirage is powered by two 2, 300-lb.-thrust Viper engines, designed by Armstrong Siddeley and made by Dassault. The plane carries a rocket with 3,500-lb. thrust for extra bursts of speed, can take off or land in less than 1,000 yards. It weighs less than five tons (v. eight tons for the Mystère), but it is sturdy enough to operate out of rough fields. The Mirage has a price tag of $300,000, about two-thirds the cost of the Myst...
Robert M. O'Neil--Winthrop House; President, Harvard Debate Council; President, Delta Sigma Rho; Phi Beta Kappa; Junior Usher...
...some recruits. Biggest prize: Santarem, a town (pop. 15,000) and airport on the river. The rebels kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat at the Amazon delta and steamed to the at tack. Veloso and Lameirao thereupon took off from Santarem for parts unknown, apparently to hide for a time, then seek new adherents or safe exile...