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...unit transports him to the nearest of the three R & R airbases. Here he changes his scrip for U.S. dollars, is checked out for neatness, lectured on good behavior, and then, within 24 hours, he is off. The first pleasure is climbing into big Pan Am planes, complete with tilt-back seats, pretty stewardesses and "refreshments," where privates rub elbows with colonels, and all rank goes by the board...
...other action around the Ivy circuit takes' a back seat today to the featured clash at Ithaca between Harvard and Cornell. Yale and Dartmouth will be trying to keep their shares of the League lead with the winner of the Ithaca tilt, and Princeton and Penn will attempt rebounds from their first defeats of the season, against non-League rivals...
INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. The 1942 Battle of Midway, refought through the recollections of survivors on both sides in a manner that conveys the dizzying tilt of every sinking ship...
Boudreaux wanted to do metal work, but he could not reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
Victory is his replay of the 1942 Battle of Midway, in which seven Japanese and U.S. ships went down. Through these pages, the reader feels the dizzy tilt of every sinking...