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...climb on their hands and knees. Only fog-filtered moonlight lit their way. Temperatures fell below freezing. By the time they reached the 10,000-ft. level, ten of the volunteers had dropped out. José Vélaz, with his grey head bare and a towel wound round his neck, pressed on through a whipping gale. At 12,000 ft., the ranger led him over a crest. Below lay the shattered fragments of the DC-3 and 31 bodies, the boys and their air crew...
...Bernie") Bierman, 59, had coached his alma mater's football team for 14 years, winning six Western Conference titles along the way, the situation was strained. With six losses and a tie, Minnesota was having its worst season in memory. One day last week Bernie tossed in the towel. Said he, in a characteristically formal Bierman statement: "I have requested that I be relieved of the football coaching duties at the end of the year." Minnesota's fangless Gophers were sorry to see Bernie go. At week's end they wrought an upset by beating Purdue...
...even has a vault like door on every floor that opens up to chute for soiled towels. A lady visitor to the gym once said to her date, when she first spotted one of the towel disposal doors, "What is this, another secret society...
...Socialism had interrupted her matutinal bathing. "One morning recently," she said, "I walked into the hotel and asked for my bath. I was told that the baths were available for men only." Undaunted, she swept upstairs alone, found four vacant bathrooms and took her a bath. "There was no towel," she told the clubwomen, "so I had to dry myself on the bathmat...
Defiance & Tear Gas. The attempted assassination of President Truman brought swift action from Mufioz Marin. Crying "This is lunatic gangsterism," he ordered Albizu Campos brought in at all costs. Police threw tear gas into Albizu's beleaguered headquarters. From the balcony, Albizu waggled a soiled white towel on the end of a broom in token of surrender...