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Sophomore Ham Graven, beat Roland Nordlie in the first singles, 6-2, 7-5; in the second singles Captain John Rauh gave up four games in each set to Dan Hutcheson, while Alex Haegler dropped three in each set against Joe Grubbs Army's number three man. At six, Donn Spencer downed Jim Higgs...
...scientists, however, did not forget fusion. Graven on their minds was a curious set of facts: when the elements are arranged in series according to their atomic weights, the atoms of those in the center of the series are lighter than they "should be." So when an atom of uranium (the heaviest natural element) splits into two fragments and a few loose neutrons, all the pieces, added together, weigh less than the original uranium atom. By Einstein's famous equation (E = Mc2), this loss of weight shows up as the energy that powers uranium bombs...
Barnaby's roster is paced by last year's top varsity player, Captain John Rauh, and the number one man on the strong '56 freshman team, Ham Graven. Another sophomore, Brooks Harris, is also high on the ladder. Behind them are the fourth, fifth, and sixth men on the 1953 varsity--Alex Haegler, Gene Mann, and Don Bossart...
Across West Germany, tireless, graven-faced Konrad Adenauer campaigned bluntly on the issue of United Europe. His main opponents, the Socialists, bluntly campaigned against it. Germans had a clear-cut choice. "Our country," said Adenauer, "is the point of tension between two world blocs . . . Long ago I made a great decision: we belong to the West and not to the East . . . Isolation is an idea created by fools. It would mean that the U.S. would withdraw its troops from Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, the moment that happens, Germany will become a satellite...
...three cars came to a halt in the village of Rhöndorf, across the Rhine from Bonn. While they waited, a tall old man, whose face is a graven image, strode down the 53 steps leading from his villa to the street. The policemen's iron heels clicked in unison and the old man, with no smile, lowered himself into the cushions of the big Mercedes. The convoy moved off, purring through vineyards and pine woods until it came to the Autobahn and merged with the traffic flowing towards the Ruhr...