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...first year's schedule is unusually crowded. In addition to the regular freshman load, these men spend at least six hours a week earning part of their college expenses. One of the heaviest time consumers, physical training, poses a problem for all students; but for a student with a six-hour job the problem is particularly difficult. Not only does he have fewer hours in which to study, but the combination of PT exercise and the energy expended working leaves him below top efficiency and prevents his fulfilling other college requirements...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises...
...driving force behind its philosophy ("We will teach anybody anything he wants"), he offered everything from a six-hour course in cafeteria sanitation to an eight-year course leading to a Ph.D. He made friends with Oilman Hugh Roy Cullen, channeled some of Cullen's millions into a vast new campus. He put up buildings for the colleges of law, pharmacy, nursing and optometry, saw the university's enrollment rise...
...Elgin, Ill., arm-weary Frank Breen, 38, claimed four world horseshoe pitching records after a six-hour marathon with a pair of 2^-lb. shoes. The records: 1,362 ringers in 1,724 pitches; 271 points and 86 ringers in 100 consecutive throws; 28 ringers...
...that there must be some mistake. But there wasn't. The mayor called a meeting of protest, but the Socialist-Communist majority on the town council upheld Salati's assessments. Then a strange thing occurred in the quiet town of Guastalla. Businessmen and shopkeepers called for a six-hour strike against Salati. Every bar and shop in town closed. Local factories sent their workers home. Buses ceased running. Even the Communist-run cooperative store shut its door (for this, Manager Affro Tavernelli was later relieved of his party card). Guastalla became a ghost town...