Word: detours
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...Burns, and Dave Vitale were thrown together freshman year a floor above Dick Manchester in Grays West--the Holworthy of the South Yard in 1964. Bob Brooks, who had roomed with a Crimson reporter in Hollis, linked up with those four as they headed for Eliot House. A sophomore detour in Claverly Hall landed them next to two legitimate Holworthys, Marshall Goldberg and Mike Hallock. The next year they moved to Eliot's K entry, and with a couple of sidekicks thrown in have controlled the third floor for two years...
...Although Middle East oil production is near its prewar level, the refineries of Western Europe will continue to feel the pinch for some time to come. Reason: until the Suez Canal is un plugged, oil tankers must take a two-week detour around the Cape of Good Hope. At Rotterdam's Europoort, whose massive refineries get 70% of their oil from the Middle East, companies have dipped into reserves while eagerly awaiting the homeward-bound tankers. "They're out there floating around somewhere," says Theo P. van den Bergh, general manager of Shell Netherlands Refining...
...world's needs until the outbreak of last month's Arab-Israeli war, was flowing at less than half its normal rate of 10,300,000 bbl. a day. And the continued shutdown of the Suez Canal forced Middle East-to-Europe oil shipments on a costly detour around the Cape of Good Hope, sorely taxing the world's tanker capacity in the process...
...Canada, where at least five Royal Canadian Air Force CF-104 jets have been destroyed in the past two years by collisions with birds, government-sponsored scientists have devised a new forecasting system that may enable pilots to detour around flocks of birds, much as they now avoid thunderstorms. With the aid of biologists, meteorologists and radar experts, Canada's Associate Committee on Bird Hazards to Aircraft last year converted the R.C.A.F. base at Cold Lake, Alta., into an electronic bird-watching station...
...William vanden Heuvel. One left-at-home assistant was incredulous: "Who's paying the taxi drivers? Who's finding the cuff links?" Who, indeed? Kennedy arrived in Bonn with one cuff waving. These and other mishaps were minor, although he was obliged at the Oxford Union to detour via a ladies' lavatory to avoid some Viet Nam demonstrators. "God bless you," he told two startled girls...