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...hours, Luciole, a battered C-47 of countless missions, heaved reluctantly down the runway and climbed through the moonlit mist. The crew started preparing flares, and their job was typical of the makeshift means the French must so often use in Indo-China. The flares were designed for bomb-bay release, but tonight they would have to be shoved by hand from the C-47's door. The delicate business of arming them must be done after takeoff. A sergeant flung one flare tail cap on the floor and swore. "It's defective," he grumbled. "This happens...
...clubbed shoulders, thumped backs. Amazed, then aroused, the students fought back with bricks, branches torn from trees, even shoes snatched off their own feet. Bystanders joined in, seizing the chance to strike at the hated Policia Armada. For two hours the fight raged, subsiding on one street corner to flare up on another. Some 80 demonstrators and 20 police were wounded...
...could now remember well his walk two years ago down the cold tunnel into the Bowl as the Band swung into "Our Director"--the saucer-shaped bowl that gave Vag the uncomfortable sensation that he was watching the game from West Rock--the Blue flare some Yale freshman set off that smothered the Eli faus instead of the Crimson--the din when Hardy crashed into Molloy and Harvard went ahead 21-14--the sickening final minutes when Yale tied the ball game--the weird feeling Vag had driving to New York, not knowing whether to sing or Sulk...
...coats have never been a social necessity in Cambridge; rather the girls have taken to chinchilla, cashmere and the omni-present camel's hair polo coat. The belted model has been replaced by the classic flare, and no one can tell anymore how much the wearer weighs...
...even that stopped the spelunkers. After burying Loubens in the chasm, they continued their explorations, found another pothole and lowered themselves through it into the lowest and biggest cave of all, a "cathedral of rock," perhaps 500 yds. long and 400 yds. wide. In a flare of magnesium, the explorers "were confronted with a panorama of rocky coagulations -slender stalactites, suspended like long wisps of straws from the majestic vaults, hanging curtains of stone, and broad, squat, dome-shaped stalagmites, looking like huge mushrooms growing on the yellowish bottom of the cave...