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...otters' bodies are buoyant, and they can float at ease with a cargo of edibles...
...next day came another assignment, which called for equipment that Schulman never before had needed in his 17 years of metropolitan news reporting: high boots. Alaskan mukluks, parka and long underwear. With this gear he flew to Victoria, B.C., drove 135 miles across Vancouver Island to catch a float plane to keep a rendezvous with a boatload of seagoing missionaries on their Christmas visit to the isolated settlers on the island's West Coast...
...three years later he decided to give music up to become a priest, a Paulist like his idol, Father Finn. "I had the idea of becoming a priest from a small boy," he says. Manhattan helped."I used to float around with a lot of theatrical people, and they didn't impress me very much." Instead of depriving him of his music, the church gave it back...
...pound varsity crew left this morning for Princeton, N.J., to compete with 11 other colleges for the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship. The Crimson, after two straight defeats at the hands of M.I.T. and Princeton, will float a revised lineup Saturday that has changed the entire complexion of the crew for their last race of the year...
...surgeons are reaching the limit of their endurance, and the overflow of wounded are waiting on the ground for their dressings to be changed. The water of the river in which bodies float can be filtered only in eyedropperfuls. There is just about enough water to give the men when they get delirious from thirst...