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...right after sunset Monday the incredible happened again. San Francisco had a blackout, and the Army announced that two squadrons of 15 enemy planes each from a carrier off the coast had flown inland over California soil near San Jose. One squadron flew south and vanished, the second flew northward past San Francisco and Mare Island...
Freed from the routine of classes a week hence, College skiers, including the team and club, will hunt up their hickory slats and begin looking northward for places to stop, good slopes and trails, and show-if it can be found...
Leon Trotsky wrote these words about the defense of Leningrad in October 1919, when the Whites were pressing the Seventh Red Army northward into the city. But the words echoed like a great roar in the labyrinth last week...
Across Quincy Street is the Union, which houses the Freshman dining halls and libraries as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where one obtains tickets for football games. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy street is the Fogg Art Museum...
...they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went through muddy, snake-infested jungle strips along the coast...