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...hours of Saturday football, the undergraduate and his date, constantly threatened by rain, spent the weekend indoors. A concession stand burned beneath the Stadium at 10 a.m. Saturday morning and 20 feet of concrete railing fell off Weeks Bridge at 11 p.m. that night --possibly Yale's departing token of dejection--but few were around to see these events...
ATOMIC POWER may first become available for commercial use in Chicago, where the Atomic Energy Commission is dickering with Commonwealth Edison Co. to pipe a "token amount" of nuclear electricity into the company's system by 1956. The power will be generated by the $17 million, 5,000-kw. boiling-water reactor AEC is building for its Argonne National Laboratory, operated by the University of Chicago...
...Tojie Harrell and his part in preserving an old Texas tradition: that a Texan's word is as good as his bond. After the ranchers had eaten all the fried chicken they could hold and had sung themselves hoarse, they gave him a "cow shower" as a token of their esteem: a brand-new ranch Jeep and a truckload of 25 prime Angus calves...
...role of Mosca, the amanuensis of immorality, Jouvet is a cunning rascal. He argues an insanely jealous husband into offering his wife to Volpone in token of friendship with the considered aplomb of a conservative stock broker...
...President also found ample time to relax, watched the early innings of World Series games before taking to the golf course (where a portable radio kept him posted on the score). He rooted for, and made token bets on, the hapless Cleveland Indians...