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...most provocative inconveniences for Radcliffe women has been the daily noon-time trek from the dark labyrinths of Widener (where they live) back to the quad (where they lunch). Attempts have been made to improve the situation. A very useful traffic island was recently installed at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street; the Radcliffe Graduate Refectory has been opened to undergraduates who cannot reach the Quad by 1:15, when lunch service ceases; women have been given the opportunity to take box lunches with them in the morning and eat near their classes...
Morton not only has permanently retired ten of the sport's major trophies, but he has eleven times won the "world series" of field trials: the National Bird Dog championship, held near Grand Junction, Tenn., where the quail burst into the air like clouds of ash, and the loping dogs may cover up to 45 miles during a three-hour hunt...
...Belgians, they turned a blind eye to a bigger threat to the peace: the gradual southward nibbling of the military patrols of Stanleyville's Antoine Gizenga. Repeatedly in recent weeks visitors warned U.N. headquarters that Gizenga troops had been seen moving toward Luluabourg, capital of Kasai, a strategic junction commanding the only direct route between Kasavubu's Leopoldville and Tshombe's Katanga. "We have no such reports," sniffed a U.N. official...
...column moving south from Luangprabang unleashed 135 rounds of 105-mm howitzer shells at a "suspected sniper." Later, atop a hill, he sent a massive artillery barrage crashing into the unscouted jungle ahead, declaring that "this will scare them off"-and it soon did. Closing on the key road junction of Phou Khoun, the troops from the north and a column from Vientiane raked the junction from both sides...
...Communist rebels retreated east from the junction toward their major stronghold, the central Plaine des Jarres. But the royal soldiers were in no hurry either to move into the junction or follow the rebels east. Main reason: Prince Boun Oum and his government, composed of six relatives and numerous friends, had flown south to Paksé in the lush Mekong River valley to celebrate an annual two-day festival at the crumbling temple of Wat Phou. Prince Boun Oum offered flowers and personally supervised the lighting of fragrant sandalwood sticks...