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Publication of the magazine Cambridge 38 has peen suspended for this year, according to Robert H. Loeffier '65, president of Harvard Yearbook Publications...
Mickey Spillane has always known what sort of fellow should play his hero, Mike Hammer, on the screen. The part calls for a real ball-peen brute with magnetal animism. There have been three Mickey Spillane movies. In I, the Jury, an actor called Biff Elliot tried his best. Then Ralph Meeker got his chance in Kiss Me Deadly. Then came a fellow named Robert Bray in My Gun Is Quick. But they were tack Hammers all. There was only one man to do it, Spillane concluded, and he has finally stepped into the role. The new Mike Hammer...
Soon he plied his way to Tokyo, where he walked into the vestibule of a small nightclub, smiled at the manager and burst into a ringing, ball-peen rendition of John Henry. He was boffo. He got a square meal and a bed. In Australia a few months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven...
...boycott of South African products, blacks and progressive groups will suffer first if South Africa is barred from the Commonwealth. Total, desparing solutions to its problems--such as the international boycott and ostracism--ignore the potential for slow improvement in South Africa. For example, the pace of industrialization has peen rapid, and the industrial machine is open for exploitation by African workers; strikes, like the celebrated bus boycott, could be a powerful weapon for change...
...Ball-Peen Adjustment: lit., a strike of a hammer, as in "I made a ball-peen adjustment on that sticky valve...