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Mary Weiss, Crimson inside right scored twice in the third period to assure victory after the varsity had staggered in a 2-3 half-time head. The Maroon out-shot the varsity, 32 to 3 in the first half...
Another UMass institution that would probably never be accepted at Harvard is the Maroon Key. This is a student organization very much like the Crimson Key except for one important difference: it is the Maroon Key's job to "orientation" the University's new freshman class each fall. Now, this "orientation" includes getting the freshmen settled in their dorms and showing them around the campus, but it also includes such things as routing them out of bed at 5 a.m. to serenade the women's dorms and making sure they wear beanies for a week. Again, however, there...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles joked that he would meet Red China's Chou En-lai only if their cars collided. In the maroon-carpeted council chamber in Geneva's Palais des Nations, Dulles never looked at Chou. But Chou's placid face seemed to hold a cobralike fascination for U.S. delegates, who watched his every move. During refreshment time, Chou moved to the buffet table for an orange juice, flanked by Russia's Molotov and Gromyko and followed by platoons of bodyguards with bulging shoulder holsters...
University employees banded together with the winter elements to maroon this auto on Holyoke St. Men shoveling the stops of the I.A.B. covered the side of the car. A snow plow moving up the street completed the burial on the other...
...train jerked to a stop, and three Canadian cars, loaded with officials, were spliced into its middle. A small crowd of Canadians and Americans, bundled in overcoats and Macki-naws, stamped their feet and waited along the siding until a sleepy-eyed man in blue pajamas and a maroon dressing gown appeared on the rear platform. He ran a hand through his sparse hair and grinned. "Hi, there," said Ike Eisenhower. "I'm sorry I'm not dressed." He shivered a minute in the near-freezing cold, glanced at the scarlet-coated Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman...