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...type small-boat market. Boeing Airplane Co. has won first commercial contract to install eight 240-h.p. gas turbine engines (used to start jet planes, power minesweepers) on cruiser fleet operated by Creole Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. New engines give speeds up to 33 m.p.h., weigh one-fourth as much as comparable piston engines...
...year. Put some personality into the houses." It is both disappointing and ironic, then, that 320 leaves personality, which is already in the houses, out of their articles about them. The house articles are all too short, having suffered most from the Yearbook's general reduction in size. Approximately one-fourth their regular length, the house descriptions cannot adequately discuss personality, or even stereotypes. Adams, the freshman's "first choice than any other house" (sic) is described tritely and dully; Dunster's "party house" stereotype is reapplied and not examined; amazingly diverse Eliot House is given two paragraphs; Leverett House...
...MERGER is under way between Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and National Container Corp., both giants in packaging. Plan calls for exchange of one share of National common stock for one share of Owens preferred plus one-fourth share of common stock. In 1955, two companies had combined $466 million gross...
...compared to other colleges: Haverford, with 450 students, has more clay courts then the University, where, at a conservative estimate, two-thirds of the students play tennis. H.A.A. figures show that all the courts together saw only 9,301 man-hours of play during the last academic year, while one-fourth as many students played 9,564 man-hours in summer school. Better summer weather and more leisure time do not explain this discrepancy; the relatively small number of courts obviously limits the amount of play by College students...
Lurking among the flowers and vegetables in many a South African garden patch is an innocent-looking weed called dagga. Dried and smoked like marijuana, a close relative, it induces a dreamy recklessness that can spur men to acts of terrible savagery. Nearly one-fourth of the rapes, murders and maulings that occur in the slums of South Africa's great cities are blamed on dagga...