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...other dorms to be closed, Peach and Henry Houses, together with Twenty Walker Street now accommodate a total of 57 students. The size of Holmes will make it possible to absorb these girls in the quadrangle and still house eight percent more resident students in the Quadrangle, upping the on-campus total to 80 percent of the resident enrollment...
...moonshine to fill a big order consigned to Atlanta's Negro slums, 360-lb. Bootlegger John R. ("Fat") Hardy whipped up a substitute. Police said that he bought a 54-gallon drum of poisonous methyl alcohol, often used for hot-rod fuel, and mixed it with well water, peach flavoring, regular moonshine and a "beading oil" calculated to make it foam when shaken. Seventyseven gallons were delivered. Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men & women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions. Three hundred and fifty people (among them...
...Mikhail Kaganovich, son of Lazar Kaganovich, longtime Politburo member and Stalin's brother-in-law; in Moscow, July 3. British and Swiss newspapers said the nuptial feast in the Kremlin lasted a fortnight, with refreshments served on Czarist gold plate and sped with pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian peach brandy and vodka. Cost...
...president of Koppers Co.) drove the work at a prodigious clip. The first offices were occupied in seven months; the job completed in 16. Some 300 architects had a hand in its design. It has five floors, each of which is painted a distinctive color-powder blue, grey, peach, green and tan. It has 7,370 windows, but it is entirely air-conditioned by a unique system, regulated by electronic "eyes" on the roof which adjust the temperature by the sun's heat. By conservative official reckoning, it cost $83 million. At first it was called "Somervell...
...handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign with peach-fuzz stubble on his chin indicated an enemy marshaling yard on the admiral's map. "We got a train here, sir, about ten or eleven cars." "Did they all burn?" the admiral asked. "No, sir," the ensign replied. "I think one group of five and another group of four...