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Army and Navy reconnaissance planes from Oahu kept Hawaiian yachting fans posted as the boats approached. The night the leaders were expected in, hundreds of Hawaiians watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours...
...neither her father's shy reserve nor her mother's dazzling charm. Last week, as she stood unobtrusively at her father's elbow, she frequently seemed plain bored. But those who looked sharp could catch an occasional rare smile, lighting her face like a searchlight, or see her knit her brow in sober perplexity over some paradox of Empire in an official's talk...
...extraordinary technique, which will make use of a stained glass window showing a scene in the life of Joan, will be lighted in part from behind the window by a Fire Department searchlight across the street...
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Other, less concrete issues fall into the beam of Mr. Bender's searchlight. The fact, for instance, that students "are not very hopeful of the good times coming and tend to concentrate on digging individual foxholes in he shape of training for careers" stands opposed to the non-professionalized aims of the general education plan. This conflict and the issues of tuition and extra-curricular life are the biggest but by no means the only questions raised by Mr. Bender's "Report," which covers everything from the problems of the married veteran to those of the engineer who has forgotten...