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...hope to retreat to Rome where they can be protected by the Vatican's Swiss Guards." Swiss Guards carry halberds. By an order of the peace-minded Supreme Pontiff last week the effective modern rifles of His Holiness' fur-helmeted Palatine Guards were replaced by 1840 muzzle-loaders which have been stored away in the Vatican for over half a century. If the Papal troops were ever military, they are now wholly demilitarized. Each muzzle-loader, now so rusty it would be hazardous to fire it, requires two Palatine Guards to work it, one to fire...
Harvard's best driver was last year's loader, Rusty Greenhood. He scored 137 against Yale for a Harvard record, but Patnik of Ohio State has scored over 160 several times. Any score from 90 to 110 is good; from 110 up is excellent. George Dana '40 has scored 116-on the high board. Most divers are 5 to 10 points better from the high board. The world's 100-yard record of 51 flat held by Weismuller and Fick will probably be the first to be broken. Hutter's Harvard mark is 52 flat; anything under 53.5 is excellent...
Because the dining hall and kitchen workers have already been granted bargaining power, the addition of a rival force would contribute towards a "distasteful setup," the labor loader held...
From that point money is spent with great rapidity by hosts and guests on dogs (which cost up to $40 apiece to rent), dozens of beaters ($2 each a day), a loader for each gun ($2.50 a day), shells, servants, tips, food. To bring down one grouse costs between $5 and $10. This year's Glorious Twelfth, however, dawned unpromisingly with rentals expected to total only about $1,500,000, as compared to the $7,500,000 of a peak year like 1929. That indicated that Scotsmen would be shooting a great many of their own birds this year...
...motcur canon had other drawbacks. Being a single-loader, it was hard to handle a Spad, keep a weather eye around and keep the canon fed. The fuses were supersensitive, for balloon work, likely to explode if poked hastily into the gun in the excitement of a brawl. If the pilot was not to miss with his single shell, he had to climb practically aboard the enemy plane before firing. If the Spanish Loyalists insist on World War ordnance, they might be better pleased with the 11 mm. Vickers-AIaxim machine gun, which heaved incendiary slugs of impressive size...