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Brisk Show. Later that day 66-year-old Harry Truman seemed to walk with a weary man's heavy tread. He wasn't usually one to worry about decisions once made, he confided to the New York Herald Tribune's Carl Levin, but on the Korean affair he couldn't help worrying about the inevitable consequences. That worry creased his face even while he put himself through a brisk show of business-as-usual, talking California politics with Jimmy Roosevelt, laying a cornerstone in the blazing Washington heat, addressing the Boy Scouts at Valley Forge...
Another way was supplied by Nature. The dust bowl of 1934-35 and the great drought of 1936 cut farm surpluses. But a fresh wave of poverty swept families westward from their deadlands to enact the saga of the Okies and tread the Grapes of Wrath...
...math major must tread the straight and narrow path through Math 1, 2, and 105. After that he can take almost any course in the department. At this point the field becomes very interesting; but few hold out through the three preliminary courses which repeat the same methods going a little deeper each time...
...Mountains rambles through the experiences of scores of camping trips, lingering longest where the trout are thickest. Author Douglas is a passionate advocate of dry-fly fishing, but he knows a quicker way to catch his supper if the trout is lying in moss or under a bank. Procedure: tread softly, bring the hand up cautiously under the fish, stroke him gently, hoist him from the water. "A trout," declares Douglas, "loves to have his belly rubbed...
Captain Corcoran will tread the stage once again when Winthrop House presents "H.M.S. Pinafore," its second annual Gilbert and Sullivan production in the Junior common room at 8:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night...