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...when the university receives the Russian ambassador to the UN, University Hall hangs out the American as well as the Soviet and Harvard flags. But where are the stars and stripes when we do not have any such special occasion? I would like to know why Harvard does not hoist the flag every day and proudly too. None of the houses, none of the buildings in the Yard, and, so far as I know, none of the graduate schools...
...often command a captive audience. Thus, until his recent transfer to Pentagon duty, U.S. Navy Captain Kenneth J. Sanger, commanding officer of the Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, was wont to require attendance at his dramatic platform demonstrations. On a mast labeled "Free Enterprise," he would hoist signs representing such virtues as "Loyalty," "Patriotism." and "Self-Reliance." Then he would pick up a stick called "Communism," take a hefty swing-and watch all the virtues come tumbling down...
...decent shape," says Alph Stamphill, an elementary school principal in charge of the city's program. "There's one eleven-year-old boy who weighs about 200 lbs. and is so strong he could cart off an anvil under each arm. But he can't hoist himself up to the chinning...
...Breed. Yesterday's sports sections bristled with evasions of perfectly useful words: four-ply wallop for homerun, apple for baseball, henhouse hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...
...short hoist from sea to helicopter was not without its danger. Earlier in the week, two Navy free balloonists, Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieut. Commander Victor Prather Jr., made a record flight (21.5 mi.) off the U.S.S. Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died...