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...task seemed forbidding, so I sought out an ace Crimson reporter. "Scoop," I asked, "maybe you can explain it. I can't figure out why ice cream and jello are always available, but never a really juicy piece of fruit...
...speak with you," Scoop waffled, "but you should speak with Deep Throat. He'll explain...
THERE are only two things in this world that journalists love more than their typewriters: a good scoop and a response from a reader. Just imagine, then, this reporter's glee when he received both in one day last week...
...blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front of a Model A. The man dumped the collected hoppers in a pile, sprayed oil on them and triumphantly set them ablaze. Father, knowing the futility of the effort, still murmured his appreciation of such energy and ingenuity, wrote the facts down in his little notebook. Story printed with...
...scene has become painfully familiar this year: exhausted workers struggling to scoop up a noxious tide of inky goo. A major cleanup campaign was under way once again last week in three different spots in the U.S.: the Delaware River, Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay and the Houston Ship Channel. Crews were deploying rakes, hand-held skimmers, oversize absorbent pads and "supersucker" vacuums to scoop up the oil spilled in the accidents. While all the slicks were much smaller than the 10.5 million-gal. spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March, the timing of the latest mishaps, which...