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...chill rain spread gloom over Lydd airport one morning last week as Group Captain Peter Townsend oversaw the loading of his green Renault sedan aboard an air freighter. Curious sightseers huddled near by, but the airman had no last words for them, not even a farewell wave of the hand as he himself climbed aboard the plane. A half hour later he was gone from
Actually, it is hard to avoid the pessimistic conclusion that the prophets of gloom have the figures on their side and that Harvard will not be able to reconcile expansion and continued quality. Even now, the University cannot meet certain significant challenges. The dormitories are greatly overcrowded, many lecture rooms are bulging, and laboratory space is inadequate. The cost of new Houses merely to alleviate the present room shortage is staggering, and a campaign for funds to build enough new Houses, classrooms, laboratories, and another Lamont, would absorb the University's energies for at least the next ten years. Most...
That night, after returning from the party and retiring, said Ann Woodward, she was aroused by a noise. Taking up the shotgun at her bedside, she crept into the hallway that separated her bedroom from her husband's. In the gloom, she told the cops, she saw a "shadow" across the hall. She fired twice, heard a body fall. Then she switched on the lights, with the dawning realization that it might be her husband and not a prowler...
...prettifying. If Anne's father (beautifully played by Joseph Schildkraut) is disciplined and quiet, her mother can be excitable; Dussel the dentist is fussy, Mr. Van Daan greedy. Under Garson Kanin's skillful direction, there is no more of an attempt at heartbreaking gaiety than at lurid gloom; there is chiefly a day-by-day liveliness, a gradual learning to walk-and on tiptoe-among eggs...
Only five days before the key game with Michigan, No. 2 team in the nation, gloom shrouded Army's football field at West Point. Army's swift halfback and 1955 team captain, Mike Zeigler, was under punishment, walking with his rifle in the barracks area instead of practicing plays. His offense: though a first-rate student and on the dean's list, Cadet Zeigler had drunk a beer in an officers' mess. He was stripped of his team captaincy and barred from football for the season...