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Although a large force of men are employed each night to sweep up the cigarettes, the Yard presents a tempting nicotine dump for the greater part of the day. To squelch ugly rumors that elder squirrels are about to report this condition to the A.S.P.C.A. and the Sanitation Department, we must begin a campaign to eliminate the cigarette from squirrel culture. Several plainly marked, strategically placed butt cans and a conscientious effort on the part of the student body to keep their cigarettes off the ground would save the squirrel from the fate of the buffalo...
...first meeting Harper came in to squelch a Crimson rally in the sixth. Moravec had tripled; Apthrop had pasted a healthy clout into the hands of Hatch, deep in, right field; and "Armie" Essayan had punched out a sharp single to left. Harper came in and, after walking Sullivan, retired the side on weak infield bloopers. He didn't allow another man to reach first base in that game...
...Virginia's Harry Byrd was sleeping soundly in a back seat. The rest of the bruised and weary Senate waited only for the collapse of the Langer charge. An hour later, it came-the Senate voted 56-to-12 to squelch his first amendment...
...labor relations. Last week the potent General Workers Union (100,000 dues payers) staged a one-day general strike, ostensibly in protest against the rising cost of living (up 25% in a year). Real reason: the Government had long wanted to halt spiraling prices but needed popular support to squelch the expected squawk from businessmen. It was all carefully arranged. Enrique Rodriguez, hard-bitten union boss, was summoned; he agreed to call a 24-hour general strike "in support of the Government." By special union dispensation, there was one exception: because Uruguayans take pride in courtesies to foreign tourists, buses...
...fighters hustled to a blaze made by a missile that just missed Lehman Hall but caught the end of Wigglesworth. There were casualties there to be handled by the medical corps. Much neglected Robinson Hall got its share in the fun as Harvard firemen stormed through her portals to squelch an irate incendiary bomb...