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Sidney B. Wood 3rd, a junior from Chestnut Hill and son of the one-time Davis Cup player and Wimbledon champion, was injured when the students compact station wagon jumped over an embankment and crashed into a pavement below. He was listed as "out of danger" at Fayetteville, but will be hospitalized for 12 weeks...
...crowd of over 30 waited at the Square for the picketers. After the demonstrators turned the corner at Lehman Hall, the crowd pelted them with eggs, hitting Robert Shann, YSA chairman, squarely on the back of his head. Most of the eggs smashed harmlessly on the pavement, however...
...British nuclear disarmament. (The new creed: "I'd rather be Red than dead ") When the great day finally came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces prepared to tack their anti-nuclear declarations to the Ministry door, the police talked them into using tape instead...
...room. "When the dribbling stopped," says Davis, who lived next door, "you knew Oscar had gone to bed." By this time Oscar had come to have a paternally protective feeling about a basketball, once chewed out a university publicity man for casually bouncing a ball on the pavement. "You'll ruin that ball. You'll rub off the grain and throw it off balance...
...summer and early fall, starlings used the treetops as a dormitory. Their droppings, which covered the ground, have the right chemical composition and acidity for Histoplasma to flourish. In cities starlings usually roost in buildings, but even where they stay in trees the terrain underneath is generally lawn or pavement; Milan just happened to offer the right circumstances. To make Milan's school parking lot and playground inhospitable to Histoplasma, the town will blacktop them as soon as the frost is out of the ground...