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...projected courts would the be the first such in the Ivy League. Choate, a preparatory school in New York State, has indoor courts, and Yale has two makeshift canvas-covered courts in Payne-Whitney Gym. Harvard's courts would have the same surface as the varsity outdoor courts (standard green) to avoid any complaints about continuing indoors a match begun outside...
Without Good Will. Industries and mail-order stores organized their own makeshift postal services. Unhappiest vic tims by far were a Yorkshire laborer, Len Darnton, and Surrey Garage Hand Gabby Senecal, who both mailed in winning football pool coupons but failed to collect $27.000 and $75,000 because their entries were not delivered in time...
Speaking at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Dr. Ralph E. Lapp questioned the value of designating makeshift shelters in the central cities and stocking them with food and water. Such a policy fails to give any protection against the blast or its heat wave, he declared. Without such protection, the chances for survival within six miles of the blast are very small...
Before mounting the makeshift gallows, Menderes had turned to Altay Egesel, chief prosecutor at the Yassiada trial, and said: "Please tell my son never to mix in politics. When one is in politics one cannot control his destiny." Last week Yuksel Menderes, 31, who had announced his intention of running for deputy on the New Turkey Party ticket in Aydin, his father's birthplace, withdrew his candidacy for "personal reasons...
...dust and debris were quickly forgotten when the festival's star performer strode onto the makeshift, wood-planked stage. Master Cellist Pablo Casals, a sprightly 84, brought concertgoers leaping from their rough-hewn seats in a rising ovation. The aging artist beamed. "Where did all those people come from?" he asked. They came from Haifa to the north, from kibbutzim in the shadow of Mount Carmel, from army headquarters in Tel Aviv-and they came chiefly to hear Pablo Casals...