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Next day, armed with another souvenir (a Malayan parang, a vicious native knife which a British sergeant had given him), the traveler from Illinois logged a misadventure. Flying over the jungle near Kuala Lumpur, his helicopter caught fire and made a forced landing in a paddyfield. Stepping out unharmed into knee-deep mud, Stevenson cracked: "Where is my parang? I want to kill a bandit." At week's end, Stevenson was ready to take off for Bangkok, with stops at Rangoon, New Delhi and Karachi before heading on to the Middle East...
...enough room for two big jet engines, whose bulky, cylindrical shapes bulge the skin outward. The plane is much bigger than a standard fighter, and extremely heavy for its size: in engineers' lingo it has a prodigiously high "solidarity factor." But all it has for wings are thin, knife-edged trapezoids no bigger than dining-room tables. Even squatting on the ground it looks wickedly fast, but its wings, apparently as rudimentary as the wings of a penguin, do not look as if they could lift it into...
...nowhere. They were tired of war, booms and depressions, had no faith in religion and despised the self-conscious modern art of the cubists and futurists. As a protest, they made up their minds to be as disorderly as possible, and defiantly named their movement by simply plunging a knife into a French dictionary. The knife point came to rest at a wildly appropriate word: "Dada," the French word for hobbyhorse...
...other suspects in connection with the beating. Bachelder and a friend, Fredrick M. Fawcett '53, were attacked by a group of about 12 local boys in front of the Harvard Square Garage at 10:30 p.m. Friday. Fawcett escaped with only a few bruises, but Bachelder suffered a serious knife wound in the head...
Richmond Bachelder '50 was rushed to Stillman Infirmary early this morning after emergency treatment at the Cambridge City Hospital. In addition to contusions of the head, mouth, and neck and a cerebral concussion, Bachelder had a knife would running from above his right eye through his ear and into the back of his neck...