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...Exeter team, at home on their large court and eager to avenge a previous loss to the Crimson, played a near-perfect ball game and twice were 14 points ahead of the Freshmen. Effectively bottling up pivot man John Rockwell with a tall center who was used against the Crimson high-scorer exclusively, the Exonians won on their accurate shooting and shrewd court strategy...
Tall Ellis M. Zacharias, a Navy captain with a flair for the unorthodox, was one of the first skippers to go after the Japs, ended up as an intelligence officer, making highly effective propaganda broadcasts in near-perfect Japanese. Last week he showed up in a particularly unorthodox light-the Pearl Harbor Committee discovered that here was one Navy man who had been 100% right about the time and place of the attack...
...offs had to be run with stopwatch accuracy. At ten-second intervals the tow planes moved in from the sides, gently tautened the line, then poured on power and roared down the runway and off into the sky. By then the day had dawned clear and bright, with a near-perfect ten-mile wind...
...months ago he threw up this sinecure, went back to the mines, and began fighting John L. on the issue of union autonomy, i.e., the right of districts to elect their own officers. (Of U.M.W.'s 31 districts, 21 are ruled by Lewis-appointed men, giving John L. near-perfect dictatorial control...
...overwhelming majority of U.S. farmers the outlook was fabulously bright. The Agriculture Department reported mounting damage by drought to crops in the East Central states, but for most of the U.S. the weather had been near-perfect and yields were high. In Montana-as in Canada-last week a roaring wind-&-hail storm streaked for 100 miles through the southeastern counties, ripped barns to kindling, and flattened fields of wheat just as the dumfounded farmers were ready to thresh. Estimated loss: 2½ million bushels of wheat...