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...losing any time. Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper's silver badge...
...holding off until a draft bill emerges from Congress. If that bill defers all college students, or if the Defense Department freezes R.O.T.C. allotments, expansion may became a dead issue. But if neither of these happens, a bigger R.O.T.C. unit would help carry the University through the first lean years of partial mobilization...
...clock: a (really) lean hour. You can hear Modern English and American Poetry with Wanning in Harvard 1. Otherwise you can hop down to Mass. Ave. for the mid-morning coffee...
Dragon fighters, especially from Vermont, should be lean, crabby, clipped and pithy in speech. Listening to the invective of Communist spokesmen, Austin could be as grimly attentive as Hawthorne's Great Stone Face. There, any resemblance to the legendary Yankee ends...
...straight plays offer an even more interesting selection for this weekend than the musicals. Hits like Death of a Salesman or Madwoman Challiot are now on the road, but the current fare is by no means lean...