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...climax of the six-year job of building Shasta. But to strapping (205 lb., 6 ft. 3 in.), profane Francis Trenholm Crowe, general superintendent of construction for Pacific Constructors, Inc., the big moment had come four months before, when the Sacramento River began a regulated flow through outlet valves on the dam's broad, sloping downstream face. "That meant we had the river licked," said Crowe. "Pinned down, shoulders right on the mat. Hell, that's what we came up here...
...Harvard that was had need of a Crimson. Now the predominantly undergraduate body is gone, and with it the need for an outlet of student opinion, and for news of leisurely activities. The Service News will cover all the Army and Navy schools and also the civilian students, but it will not be a Crimson. There will be no editorial policy...
...legend, homosexuals are not necessarily physically abnormal, though sometimes a glandular disturbance is involved. As a rule, homosexuals are made, not born. Psychologists W. Norwood East and W. H. Herbert list seduction in childhood as the commonest precipitating cause. Other causes: 1) a tendency to varied and primitive sexual outlets; 2) an inherited tendency. From Lonergan's repudiated confession to the police he would seem to fall into the varied and primitive sexual outlet group...
Since the Navy summarily moved in two years ago, farmers of surrounding Ventura County have cast peevish and curious glances at this furious bustle of activity. They financed and built the original port themselves as an outlet for their lima beans and lemons after a Federal grant had been rescinded on the grounds that no port was needed...
...compact new sun lamp, combining warming infrared and tanning ultraviolet rays, that needs no reflector, can be plugged into any electric outlet...