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...life of ants appears to be unsatisfactory for all concerned. The males are short-lived nonentities. The females (queens) turn soon after fertilization into egg-laying machines. The workers (undeveloped females) never mate, but they seem to have a variety of social activities that take the place of sex. At every opportunity they nuzzle and caress one another, and this seems to give them great pleasure...
...Bicker weeks. During the first three weeks of his sophomore year, each student who has shown interest in belonging to a club by registering with the dean's office, is visited by roving committees from the clubs. These groups that with each man, evaluating his potentialities as a mess-mate, conversationalist and fellow club man. Then the clubs make their bids. The more talented and popular students have a problem in deciding which of the many bids that they receive to accept. Their less socially desirable classmen also have a problem. Under the 100 per cent agreement, started...
Yesterday, before the 45 man Yardling squad sloshed out for a rain-soaked scrimmage, it elected left guard Ted Metropoulos '57 captain. Metropoulos is the former room-mate of much-transferred Billy Donlan, the one-time prospective Yardling starter now at Boston College...
...fiendish delights of crossword puzzles, Ask Me Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network on-the-field play-by-play broadcasting? Who was Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1932-described by H. L. Mencken as 'half Indian and half windmill...
Admiral at Work. Burger simply seized the ships, then let them continue operating under the same officers. But he first had both captain and first mate sworn in as deputy U.S. marshals, with the duty of impounding all profits made by the vessel. To accomplish this, Burger had to get the owners' agreement to the arrangement. They were willing because their only alternatives were to keep the seized ship at anchor (at a cost of $1,000 to $2,000 a day), or put up bond equal to its value. As a result, Burger is now running so many...