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Toilet-paper streamers festooned the trees. Strings of firecrackers chattered like machine guns. Signs were everywhere. SONS OF ERIN, UNITE! they said. RUB THEIR NOSES IN THE IRISH SOD! Sturdy young men stopped strangers, flashed their "Hate State!" buttons and inquired politely: "You wouldn't be a State man, now, would you?" South Bend, Ind., was no place for the faint of heart last week. Notre Dame, the No. 1 college football team in the nation, was taking on Archrival Michigan State?and the Fighting Irish were in a fighting mood...
...second shot found a trap-and he still got a par. On and on he went, playing as if he had taken lessons from Rube Goldberg-straying down an adjoining fairway on the eighth, bouncing his ball off a tree on the 15th, dumping his drive into loose sod on the 16th. Scores: two pars and a birdie. On the par-three 17th hole, Nichols "squirreled" his No. 2 iron tee shot off to his right and overhit his wedge recovery. So what happened? The ball hit the top of the pin and dropped dead 1½ ft. from...
Some of the noblest bones of France lie in the sod of Père-Lachaise, the most stately cemetery in Paris. It was there, and not in a humble graveyard, that French Communists last week buried Maurice Thorez, for three decades their leader...
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska when homesteaders still lived in sod houses on the plains, trained in Nebraska as a botanist, largely self-educated in law with only one year of Harvard Law School for formal training, Pound rose to the highest ranks of American scholarship, profoundly affected the course of American legal thought, and presided over the golden age of the Harvard Law School...
...development. The Navy came up with some stiff specifications for such a plane. It must have a top speed of 316 m.p.h., be able to linger over a target for two hours, clear a 50-ft. barrier on takeoff within 800 ft. of its starting point, operate out of sod fields, off gravel roads and, when equipped with pontoons, from water. It would require two engines so that it could still fly if one were knocked out. Finally, it must be able to carry up to six paratroopers, two crew members, four machine guns and four conventional bombs...