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...astronomers, Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago. After almost a year's moon-gazing through the McDonald Observatory's 82-in. telescope (the world's third-largest), near El Paso, Texas, he decided that the lunar markings were caused by a swarm of satellite planets...
...Membership in the Communist empire and expert guidance. Red China officers swarm, and Red China goods are turning up in Hanoi. Seven of eleven top Viet Minh leaders were trained in Moscow. Ho Chi Minh, according to the best evidence, reports direct to Moscow, not through Peking...
...took over almost completely in the fourth period, and the varsity was in possession of the ball for only eight plays. Brown failed on its first march, which covered 74 yards in 15 plays, but then pounded over on 11 more plays with Kohut completing his passes.CRIMSONJACK G. SCHAVERA swarm of Brown players closes in on tailback MATT BOTSFORD, who returned to the Crimson lineup Saturday after missing the Princeton game with an arm injury. He scored two touchdowns, carried the ball 18 times for an average gain of 4.5 yards, and completed seven out of 11 passes...
Inside, the four-tiered garden looked like a convention of the daughters of the American Revolution. Red, white and blue bunting bedecked the railings and a swarm of middle-aged women buzzed excitedly on the covered over hockey rink and in the balconies above. Here and there a man shifted uneasily in his seat, gazing toward the empty stage at one end of the arena...
...styles of goal post play. If Harvard won, local fans ripped down their own structures: if the Crimson lost them undergraduates would mass to save the posts, perhaps thrown for a greater loss by the pickpockets than the opposition. Back in 1951 a Harvard defensive unit held off a swarm of righteous Princetons for a full 20 minutes. That same year when the Crimson beat Brown officials had attempted to foil the raiders by covering the posts with a thick coat of lard. But blue blazers were used to wipe the posts clean enough to permit razing...