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...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
Miss Gabor will open the drive with a pint of her own blood...
Magda Gabor, the "Mystery partner" of the famous Gabor tried, will land in Cambridge by helicopter Saturday to donate the first pint of stood for the spring drive, Alan I. W. Frank '54, co-chairman of the drive, announced last night...
Frank also announced last night that solicitors had collected 2,122 pledged throughout the University in the second day of the drive, far outstripping Monday's record of 933 pledges. Miss Gabor's pint of blood, however, will not be included in the final blood totals, Frank added...
...thesis notes were burning a hole in Miles' portfolio. After a year at the London School of economics, during which he acquired a pint-sized car he calls "the little Nipper." Miles came to roost at the Littauer School. In the last two years at the University, his thesis has grown, he says, to volumes of research and two pages of final product...