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...Austria, Red army strength remains at 50,000. There are still no signs of Soviet troop concentrations in Czechoslovakia, but the Russians there have been working on an experiment: landing MIGs, which have wide, tough undercarriages and soft tires, on sod fields. If it works, and plain fields turn out to be usable as jet airports, the Soviet potential for striking out suddenly from hundreds of places would be immeasurably increased. Airfields are being strengthened, but there are few indications of extensive rail and road building, the kind that would be necessary for a long, sustained war, as distinct from...
...booming business: every year Americans spend $250 million for vitamins (four-fifths of it for pills and capsules). Much of this spending, Dr. McCollum believes, is foolish, because most people can get all the vitamins tney need from proper diet. Elmer McCollum was a farm boy, born (in a sod hut) near Fort Scott, Kans. As a young man, with a Ph.D. from Yale, he went to the University of Wisconsin to work on cattle feeds. But the experiments were being made on heifers, which are unhandy as laboratory animals. McCollum wanted to try out the feeds on rats...
Professor John Lighten Synge (rhymes with ring) is a bald-domed, red-mustached Irishman whose English ancestors moved to the ould sod so long ago (1600s) that Red Hugh himself ought to forgive him their origin. For 22 years, off & on, he has taught physics and mathematics in the U.S. and Canada, long enough for his speech to lose all but a touch of brogue. But in his new book, Science-Sense and Nonsense (Norton; $2.75), he shows that he has hung on to more than his share of native wit and irreverence-qualities that made his playwright uncle, John...
...pages together, it smolders with a pleasant aroma of the ould sod...
David Binder '53 staked Leverett's claim onto the Winthrop House sod with the sign: "People's Republic of Gore Hall, Leverett House...