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...Earl M. Phalen, a first-year student, read aloud a letter that...
YALE (86): Mike Ryan 5-6--16; Art Mann 0-0--0; Michael McMahon 0-1--1; Sid Smith 1-0--2; Earl Phalen 0-0--0; Ed Petersen 8-2--20; Travis McCready 3-4--10; Dean Campbell 6-2--15; Casey Cammann 6-0--12; Stuart Davies...
...1970s, conservation measures such as installing sealed windows, closing air-intake ducts and overinsulating roofs only made matters worse. As a result, most -- and at times all -- of the air in many office buildings is recirculated. "Without adequate dilution by fresh air, pollution levels build up," explains Robert Phalen, an environmental specialist at the University of California in Irvine. "It's like being in a submarine. No matter how good the air filter is, there's always going to be residual pollution...
...turns out to be not unlike stone, but then the skills of classic masonry are scarce these days. Ice harvesting, an ordinary annual ritual when St. Paul built its first palace, is at least as arcane. The lost arts have been revived: massive ice chunks were chainsawed from Lake Phalen, floated to an underwater conveyor belt, broken into blocks (21 in. by 2 ft. by 3 1/2 ft.), / shaved, sluiced down a long wooden chute, trimmed, plucked by a crane and set into place with a mortar of slushy snow...
...later learned about one incident in Irving's text that only Dietrich could have provided, and Dietrich had not talked to Irving. Phalen protested. Meanwhile, Hughes had broken years of silence, using a speaker-telephone to address a group of reporters who knew his voice, and had denounced Irving's work as a hoax. Squads of detectives joined in the hunt. Irving's deception collapsed. He and his wife confessed to conspiracy and grand larceny and served prison terms of about 18 months...