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GEORGE C. THAYER...
...carry 32 combat troops or four tons of cargo. The two that were flown last week are the first of five to be delivered to the Air Force this year at a cost of more than $100 million. "With an aircraft like this," said LTV Executive Vice President Paul Thayer, as he talked of the brush-fire wars the plane might be used for, "a clearing in a forest performs like a multimillion-dollar runway...
...Thayer Hall proctor Thomas Petri, third year student in the Law School, was editor of Election '64, the Society's report. He was joined in the effort by J. Eugene Marans, a third year student in the Law School, who wrote a section of the report dealing with "Strategies and Issues" of the campaign. This section laid great emphasis on Goldwater's handling of the civil rights question. Lee Huebuer, a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences, wrote the introduction to the report...
...ruptured sprinkler pipe set fire alarms blaring throughout Thayer Hall at 1 a.m. Sunday morning. The break, over a stairway in the south entry, lowered the water pressure until the alarms sounded automatically. The pressure then built up again and the alarms stopped, and started, and stopped, and started...
...generation after Thayer's death, at 80, in 1897, British Critic Ernest Newman set the fashion in psychological evaluation of Beethoven by concluding that he suffered from "morbid sex obsessions" because of his troubles with syphilis. Alexander Wheelock Thayer belonged to a gentler, less analytic age. All he could finally conclude about the man he had spent his life studying was that, take him all in all, his was "a very human nature, one which, if it showed extraordinary strengths, exhibited also extraordinary weaknesses...