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With a final six-minute spurt, the freshman basketball team took a 78 to 63 game from Providence College, for its first victory of the season. Tony Messier led the Crimson with 22 points, although Providence's Lionel Jenkins was the game's high scorer with...
...hearing proved to be even messier than expected. On the ground that his answer might incriminate him, each of the four witnesses refused to say whether or not he had ever been a Communist, but each had quite a bit to say about the investigation itself. In a prepared statement, full of sound & fury, Oscar H. Shaftel, of the Queens English department, called it an "inquisition ... a bludgeon against academic freedom . . . I am sick." said he, "of teachers huddling ... in fear, hoping maybe a McCarran, a McCarthy or a Velde committee may overlook the bad thing they once said about...
...ready at last to do something about Iran. For 19 months the U.S. State Department stood by and watched the Iran mess get messier. It sweated out three separate negotiating missions, three offers for a settlement by the British and one by the International Bank, two sessions of the World Court at The Hague, one of the U.N. Security Council, three Iranian cabinets and uncounted buckets of tears from Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. Nothing worked. The U.S. intervened just enough to get stuck with a large measure of the blame for the mess, but not enough to clean it up. Washington...
Then Nininger points out a peculiar pair of lunar pockmarks named Messier and W. H. Pickering. They lie on either side of a ridge running across the moon's Mare Foecunditatis. Both were formed, he thinks, when a large meteorite hit the ridge at a very small angle. Its speed carried it through the loose material and down to the solid rock below the peak of the ridge. Then it bounced up like a ball and tore into the open, leaving a tunnel. The inside of the tunnel may be lined with a casing of glassy once-molten rock...
...probity and decorum. His broaching of his plot to Stanley Holloway, a manufacturer with the soul of an artist, is a masterpiece of delicate suggestion without a single incriminating word spoken. With Holloway safely in his pocket, Guinness displays equal ingenuity in recruiting two mobsters to handle the messier details of his plan...