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...danger is therefore that the bombing campaign proposed by General MacArthur, instead of being a knockout blow, would be a campaign of harassment and pin pricks which would spur the Chinese people on to an ever greater military effort against us without destroying their military potential as we might hope...
...racing is only a little more refined than a crap game.Almost anyone can come to a crew race. Pictured above are three Boston University students and a friend from Tufts mingling with the Harvards. At this Juncture In the Cambridge regatta the boats were abreast of these spectator. The pin stripe suit on the boy in the left foreground is typical of the Boston University styles this Spring. The wildly-flowered ties his friends wear are also very popular on many of the New England campuses although the Harvard men seem to hold to more conservative things...
Meteorologists have never been able to pin down a regular pattern in the weather, beyond the daily and annual cycles. But in late 1949, Rainmaker Irving Langmuir started releasing silver iodide particles in the skies over New Mexico on the same day each week. His idea was to see if this "weekliness" showed up in weather statistics gathered all over the country. According to a report in last week's Chemical and Engineering News, Langmuir is sure that...
Even with its present membership, on which it's almost impossible to pin a label--such as scholarly, athletic, or clubby--Dunster is still probably the most independent unit of the seven Houses. It innovates, it is chummy, it is cheerful, it is peppy, it is loud. Most of its residents find it more than a dormitory...
...syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...