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...full-page magazine ads he was warned that unless he bought nylon tires, he dared not drive at high speeds. Leering down from billboards, other ads warned him that if he did buy nylon tires, his car would start shaking him up like a concrete mixer. Battling to supply the $300 million worth of reinforcing yarn used in the 105 million tires made each year in the U.S.. manufacturers of nylon and rayon cord were waging one of the bitterest and least restrained advertising campaigns in modern business history...
...tone, but is consistent in its lack of facility. The Faculty profiles are soapily reverent and incredibly uninformative. Some articles are presented in a flat, uninteresting style, while others reach for and miss flowery heights ("The snake enters and is metamorphosed: joint by joint it dissolves, filling the barn-mixer-exam-hall-box with paper-clips, each looking for its own special assortment of cards and papers to belong to. . . ."). The writing in 325 is generally bad, and, what is worse, terribly dull in its overall effect...
...Miss Ivy League" Beauty Contest will take place next Saturday night, May 20, at the Hotel Bradford during the Intermission period of the Ivy League Mixer. Two of the Judges announced to date are: Marland Slaven, past state director of the Miss America Pageant and Michael Lottman, Managing Editor of the Harvard CRIMSON...
Tonight, May 12, the Ivy League Mixer will hold forth at the Hotel Lenox, wherein some of the contestants will perform in a rehearsal of their talent presentation...
...countdown, Walker interrupted by radio: "We've lost our liquid-nitrogen cooler. My mixing chamber quit." Without the cooler both his special flight suit and his cockpit would turn into bake ovens in the searing, supersonic flight to come. As the mother plane circled slowly, Walker jiggled the mixer handle. "I've worn out my fingers," he complained. Then: "That was touch and go. I've got it on again...