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When Secretary of State Dulles quite noticeably bypassed Paris during his Washington to Berlin jaunt a few weeks ago, unofficial State Department spokesmen confirmed what was obvious to Parisians: Dulles had declined a conference with Premier Mendes-France to show the French people that the U.S. disapproved of their premier's policy towards E.D.C. In contrast, the slightly awkward haste with which Dulles has sought out Mendes-France during the past few days seems a patch-work way of atoning for what could possibly be a serious diplomatic blunder...
Returning from a uranium-prospecting jaunt in the barren countryside of Queens land, Australia one day last month a jeepload of weekend prospectors bogged down in a creek. Four got out to push while a fifth, Timberman Norman McConachie, idly strolled along the creek bank with a Geiger counter. He spotted a promising rock and put his counter to it. The needle jiggled up to 2,500 on the dial. With darkness falling, the five went home to the little mining town of Mount Isa. Three days later they were back, with three others, to check thoroughly on nearby rocks...
Says Schulman: "On that week-long missionary jaunt, when the sea got rough and the craft started to heave and roll through the reefs like a Coney Island roller coaster, the Gospel-quoting skipper began to sing My Heart Is Full of Joy. I joined in-the best seasickness preventive yet." Faced with one fast-breaking story after another, the Schulmans spent Christmas in their hotel, finally moved into a house on the first of the year. But since then the house has seen little of Schulman...
Popell, a varsity football end entering his first marathon, will be one of two Winthrop residents attempting the 26-mile jaunt on Patriot's Day. The other is junior Bill Chrisman, who finished 88th out of 200 in last year's race and hopes to improve his showing this year...
...Crimson plays at Fort Lee on Monday, at Charlottesville on Tuesday, and will wind up its Virginia jaunt at Quantico on Thursday...