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...Last Ditch. Higher wages and more fringe benefits for the help, higher taxes and out-of-town living have been hardest of all on the smaller college clubs...
...recurrent rumor in college-club circles is the formation of an overall "Ivy League Club." Pittsburgh's Harvard, Yale and Princeton clubs long ago merged. Merger is considered a last-ditch expedient-especially since so much of a college club's esprit depends on old-school loyalty-but it definitely is in the air. Says President Robert V. Cronin of Manhattan's Brown Club: "The chances of club amalgamation in the future are much greater than for the continued existence of individual clubs...
...Legion Museum lay the wooden hand of one-armed Captain Jean Danjou, who died with 39 other Legionnaires in a last-ditch stand against 2,000 Mexicans in 1863. In the courtyard surrounded by the pink-walled barracks stood the Monument to the Dead-a bronze terrestrial globe guarded by four bigger-than-life statues of Legionnaires. Sentries in white kepis still stood guard before the gate bearing the inscription Légion Etrangère, but packing cases were piled on stair landings and in mess halls, and Legion tanks and halftracks were clanking down the road to Oran...
...University of Colorado, and twice he flunked out. Then, after a long party one night in 1946, he went to sleep at the wheel of his souped-up 1934 Ford. The car knocked over three roadside posts, flew 100 ft. into the air and crashed upside down into a ditch...
Oxford Archaeologist M. J. Aitken explained to the conference why almost any disturbance of the soil shows up on the magnetometer. Topsoil is generally more magnetic than soil below it, so when a ditch or cellar gradually fills with material washed from the surface, it distorts the earth's magnetic field enough to be detected by the magnetometer despite several yards of debris...