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Perhaps the main path from Lamont to Sever could be made into a one-lane speedway to handle express classgoer traffic, and all local and westbound idlers could be shunted off to other routes, thereby reducing the accident toll. Or maintenance men could rip out the soundproofing in the library. If asked any questions, they could say that this was going to be done all along because the University has found that the suppression of noise violates the principles of academic freedom...
...Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, about 45 miles away, were climbing on the second leg of a 1,220-mile training flight to Michigan. People on the ground saw several of the planes enter a thunderhead, flash out into the clear again. Suddenly, a series of explosions seemed to rip through the formations. Within seconds, eight planes had crashed to earth in a 25-mile area around Richmond. Three pilots were killed, two parachuted to safety, three managed to belly-land their crippled craft into open fields...
...Fabiola" drags along slowly until the very end. But a rip-roaring finale in which literally hundreds of Christians are burned, tortured, and easten by lions in the Roman Coliseum makes the film worth easily three times the price of admission...
Puccini: The Girl of the Golden West (Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Ugo Savarese, baritone; Vasco Campagnano, tenor, and others; chorus and orchestra of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's "western" may have been rip-roaring stuff at its premiere at the Met in 1910, with Caruso singing and Toscanini conducting, but it sounds pretty flat now. Performance and recording: good...
Football star Jeff Fleischmann and basketball player Red Chadwick lead the Big Red in batting; Rip Haley and Billy Whelan are exceptionally fast on the bases...