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That was all right with everybody but the young bucks of the town, and chief among them was the village president's son Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
...night in a tavern, the young bucks got together: they would file their own slate for the village elections. Hot Rod would run against his father; another young fellow would oppose his father-in-law for a seat on the village board. They rounded up 48 votes, figured that they thus controlled better than half of the votes usually cast. The trick was to pretend that their campaign was all a gag, so that the oldsters wouldn't get stirred...
...Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend or foe) device which can be coupled directly with gun-aiming equipment was announced by the National Security Resources Board. In World War II, when an I.F.F. reported that a target was friendly, the message...
Harvard skiers who placed in the first ten were: third, Larrie Griffin; fourth, captain elect Rod Nordblom; fifth, captain Graham Taylor; seventh, Gordy Abbott; and eighth, Don Justus...
...preliminaries, Peter Munyan (Penn) pinned Joe Kozol at 5:47 with a forearm and reverse nelson; Cornell Captain Joe Calby pinned Dave Coombs with a half-nelson and bar arm at 1:51; Settani (Syracuse), decisioned Bob Aboud, 11-2; Eris Erikson (Lehigh) Rod Skinner with a cradle at Erikson is a two-time runnerup the 155-pound class. At 165, Fred (Cornell) decisioned...