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...cafeteria, the watch engineer had just stepped out to cash a check. It was 12 107. With a reverberating, mind-stopping roar, one of the three steel boilers, 15 ft. long and 5 ft. across, exploded at one end. The escaping steam roared out through the aperture with the thrust of a rocket, drove the boiler through the wall into the cafeteria, on through the ceiling into the first-floor accounting office, then hurtled down into the cafeteria again and through the far wall into a file room. Stumbling through the choking, smoking chaos of shattered walls and furniture...
...addition, Harvard's offensive thrust should be a little more sophisticated than last year. When Ted Halaby was injured early last season, Yovicsin was faced with the prospect of going with two sophomore quarterbacks, a sophomore fullback, and relatively inexperienced halfbacks. Now that this crew has had a season to gain confidence and learn new skills, Yovvy feels safer about trying greater diversity. The attack will be better balanced between passing and running, and there will be more pass option plays...
...silence as leaders of the Old Dominions and the new nations of Africa and Asia challenged their onetime imperial ruler's right to decide her own future. Cried Jamaica's ebullient Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante: "The Treaty of Rome is like a surgeon's knife thrust into the body of the Commonwealth, cutting off one member from another, dividing one friend from another." One of the angriest tirades of all came from Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who warned: "We have spent 100 years resisting the magnetic pull of the United States. This will...
Terrible Terry. Advise and Consent left the nation dangling in perilous circumstance. The Russians had just landed on the moon and ominously summoned the U.S. to Geneva for a conference. The death of the President had thrust command upon Harley M. Hudson, the harmless nincompoop of a Vice President...
...California's state board of education urges schools to combat de facto segregation "with the full thrust of our legal authority and moral leadership." Resisting this stand, San Francisco's School Superintendent Harold Spears announced last June that he could see "no educationally sound program to eliminate schools in which students are mainly of one race," and created Central Junior High School, a school district so drawn that 60% of the students would be Negro. Upset parents-white and Negro-filed a federal suit to hold down Central's Negroes. (The overall rate in other schools...