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...world maps showed the West in blue, Communism in red. Maybe red is all that he will need. Now he can scratch out the blue for Cuba and Laos and paint them red. GEORGE P. WALKER Center Point, Texas...
...completed in 1964, the structure will have a capacity of 900,000 kw. of electricity, back up Lake Powell through 186 miles of some of the most dramatic scenery in the U.S. The job of building Glen Canyon compares in sheer size with the land itself. Workers erected from scratch the town of Page, which now has a population of 7,000. A giant refrigeration plant daily turns out 4,000 tons of ice to cool the concrete so that it hardens properly. Perched on the wall of the canyon, the concrete-mixing plant is as tall...
...camera's eye pans over the ravages of a Lost Weekend in Eliot House, as seven bleary-eyed dissipates scratch their navels, belch, and squint unbelievingly as an elegant figure, clutching a Neville Chamberlain umbrella, hoists himself through an upper-story window into their midst. And so begins "Three Giant Steps," a 21-minute silent comic film which opens tomorrow night in the Eliot House dining hall...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 14--Navy beat the Harvard baseball team 5-2 here today, built it really shouldn't have happened. The Midshipmen could muster but one solid hit off starter Al Yarbro. Five scratch safeties and six errors by the Crimson defense gave Navy the game...
...turning coach Norm Shepard's grey hair to white, and when the statistics were tabulated Harvard was ahead by one--six errors to five runs. The only solid hit off Yarbro was a run-scoring triple in the seventh by Ron Reihel, but Navy combined the errors and scratch hits for unearned runs in the first, third, fifth, and eighth...