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...many a night, the inhabitants of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic can see a point of light darting through the heavens. It hurtles closer and grows bigger than any star or planet before crashing into the sea 100 miles away. It is another U.S. missile, fired from far-away Florida, that has soared 600 miles into space and successfully returned through the atmosphere. It means that the basic re-entry problem has been licked...
Some of the girls depart for such far-away places as Hanover, New Haven, Princeton, and some even come to Cambridge; others remain on the campus to entertain visitors. The switchboard in every dormitory is tied up for the entire afternoon, and the living room is full to over-flowing. A mad flurry of excitement pervades the scene, and the slow week-day pace quickens in preparation for the holiday...
...talked to one girl, and sipped heady wine from far-away New York State in the intimate surroundings of Cronin's Monday night, when the electricity went out on Mount Auburn St. from 8:15 until 10:30 p.m. Tom Cronin lights candles (above) for the festivities...
...catastrophe, a willing and resolute first-aider on the spot can be worth a dozen doctors in a far-away hospital. Last week, as the rumbling political volcano of Egypt blew its top in a roar of fulminant frenzy, first aid was urgently needed. It was firmly applied by a young king whom the West had long regarded as a fatuous playboy...
...Work in areas like these," he says, "is just as exciting and dangerous as it is in the most far-away land. We aren't looking for experts. We're looking for parsons who love the working people...