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...post game custom of dismembering the goal-posts was noted to have sadly deteriorated. Saturday the Rutgerites rushed from their allotted seats and proceeded to tear down the Scarlet (defended at the terminus of hostilities) cross bar and supports, while Crimson fans implemented by high-octane fuel, successfully defended their own (Harvard's) device for place kicking...
...Proctor of Caen has written saying that men are needed to aid in the reconstruction of dormitories and classrooms destroyed during the war, while the Yugoslavia project involves construction work on a railway with its terminus at Belgrade...
...route of the line and its Mediterranean terminus have not yet been determined. The biggest snag in exact planning is troubled Palestine, where Jewish terrorists last week blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline in two places (see FOREIGN NEWS). But Aramco, owned by the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, is so confident of solving-or skirting-such difficulties that it is going ahead full speed. It sent one U.S. expert to Arabia last month to set up the job, will soon send technicians to make final surveys...
This week, after a disappointing, 48-year adventure in tempered colonialism 6,965 miles from home, Destiny vacated its western terminus. The U.S. was the first great power in its right mind which had ever kept a promise to free a colony. But the power was happy to do it for several reasons...
General McClure ran his show from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...