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...snorkel (which is a convenience, not a necessity, on an atomic submarine). Inside, the SSN will open up an entirely new world to sailormen accustomed to the smelly, cramped interiors of standard subs. It will have its own oxygen supply and a special carbon dioxide removing room to freshen the air its crew breathes. There will be vast space for the complex array of dials and electronic gadgets, huge torpedo rooms to hold a school of homing torpedos. The familiar throbbing diesel engines will be gone. Instead, a single atom-powered steam turbine will drive it swiftly and silently...
...suggest that he proceed to abolish geometry (invented by a pagan), algebra (influenced by Mohammedans) . . . music (its appeal is sensual), art (unattractive to red-blooded hemen) and . . . that when spring comes-if it ever does to Olivet, Mich.-he keep his students all indoors lest it freshen their blood and create unorthodox notions...
...happened to read this column Wednesday, you may remember that I swore to find out more about that Radcliffe Freshman. Here's the straight word. But first, just to freshen up your memory on her, she was the one a friend of mine overheard saying, at a Phillips Brooks House tea, that she came to Radcliffe because it's three hours from New Haven, switched from French to Drama soon after arriving, and thinks she may now have to transfer somewhere else on account of there's no Drama course at Radcliffe...
Experimentation with the running attack, which exploded with the force of a small, wet firecracker against Brown and Rhode Island State last week, has dominated recent practice sessions. Today, while everybody rests up, groundskeepers will got a chance to freshen up the Stadium cinders for the spiked-shoe invasion...
...Foreign Service officers will be required to spend their leaves in the U.S. every two years, must pass at least three of their first 15 years of service on assignments in the U.S. The idea: to keep officers in step with the U.S. viewpoint, to freshen democratic outlooks frequently fuzzed by overlong foreign exposure...