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...Stove Harrison, a back who was the Crimson's second leading rusher as a sophomore last year, touched the ball only once all day. Yovicsin said after the game that Harrison will see more running action in the future as the Crimson continues to unveil its new offense...
EDWARD ALBEE once wrote a play about a middle-aged couple who, before putting Grandma permanently in the sandbox with a toy shovel, gave her a nice place to live under the stove, with an Army blanket and her very own dish. The play contains more truth than allegory. One of the poignant trends of U.S. life is the gradual devaluation of older people, along with their spectacular growth in numbers. Twenty million Americans are 65 or over. They have also increased proportionately, from 2.5% of the nation's population in 1850 to 10% today...
...more than 20 years, Trombe has championed solar furnaces as an ideal source of intensive heat for both industrial uses and scientific experimentation. In 1946 he fashioned his first sun stove out of a captured German antiaircraft searchlight mirror at an observatory near Paris. Moving to the old Pyrenean citadel town of Mont-Louis, where the sun shines as many as 200 days a year, he has since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with...
...have gone without a day's meals at one time. To go without food for a week or a month is certainly different, but we can imagine. We can also imagine the feeling of burning napalm glued to your body, because we have all burned our fingers on a stove. The more able your imagination, the more able you are to extrapolate from a modest experience to an intensive one, the more suffering you can understand...
...later when they were speaking again, Merilee and Sam agreed that it was civilization and cosas which had nearly done them in. Merilee's new thirty-five dollar stove didn't work and the dented refrigerator iced her vegetables. They decided to go to the mountains overnight to drop and scrub the common soul, and took the habachi and the keeds and Stefan with them. They were silent on the way up, both appalled at how close to the edge they had carelessly careened...