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...bent by this temperature gradient, hiding a sub as effectively as if it were behind a hill. Equipped with a gadget of Woods Hole's devising, a bathythermograph, many a U.S. sub saved itself during World War II by finding a temperature "hill" in the ocean and slip ping behind...
...hard core of "resident commuters," however, its problems as a commuter center are far from solved. In an article in the Dudley Reporter (the House's dittographed newspaper), a student claims that, for 80 per cent of commuters, "Dudley is no more than an occasional snack bar, and a ping-pong and dance hall for most of the others." He continues: "The same names appear with monotonous regularity in the House Committee, Dance Committee, sports events, at dances, and on the Reporter's masthead. The number of Dudley men who, by being active in the affairs of the Housee would...
...will put a frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike...
...girl from Barnard explained that the Harvard men who attend jolly-ups are "generally undesirable." Discussing the seven dorms which have held or are planning jolly-ups, another, from Briggs, said "chacun a son gout," and mused over the possibility of buying a ping-pong table with the money saved...
...second singles, captain Charlie Hamm won the only quick match of the day, 15-5, 15-7, 15-6. On courts as hot as those in Annapolis such a score is astonishing. The squash ball heats up and bounds like a ping-pong ball around the court, making the put-away shots which are so necessary in regulation courts almost impossible. Another reason for Hamm's easy win is probably that he is definitely the wrong man on whom to try the usual Navy rough-'em-up style, as such tactics often elicit a response in kind from...