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...buttons all over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps...
...game again--and Harvard had its first field basket since Jerry O'Neil's short pop shot over eight minutes before. The Terriers scrambled to get the ball in play, but Johnson got his long arms in the way, stole the ball, and hit Grate who flipped in a three-foot turn-around. The ball trickled in over the front rim, and now it was B.U. calling for time. Eight seconds left...
...Thornton Wilder's total literary output is small-six novels, four full-length plays. But if it is not a three-foot shelf, it bears witness to an original mind and a remarkable skill-The Skin of Our Teeth, Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey are genuine American classics...
...might be equipped for the first time with 20-mm. and 37-mm. antiaircraft guns, which could seriously threaten the U.S. planes and helicopters that fly vital strafing and bombing missions. One U.S. F-4 Phantom hit by ground fire last week limped back to Danang airbase with a three-foot hole in its fuselage-big enough to have been caused by such A.A. batteries...
...gone completely abstract. The stores along the street, which pay for the display according to their store frontage, this year hit upon a giant jeweled necklace consisting of eleven sections made up of 33 hexagonal frames wrapped in gilt tinsel. In the center of each hexagon is a three-foot star, and at the bottom of each dangles yet another star embedded with silver reflectors. Explains one of the designers: "Father Christmas is losing his charm. Even cribs are less popular. People want something different...