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Barring poor weather or other unforeseen events, the varsity football team will fly to Ithaca for its game with Cornell next fall. This would be only the second time that the varsity has been airborne; it flew to Palo Alto, Callf., in 1949 to meet Stanford...
This result was not unforeseen. Wednesday, Alan Steiner, president of the CCA, sent letters to all CCA members suggesting that his group had resigned itself to the probable loss of the election and that it might be "compelled" to elect a non-CCA councillor for mayor. The CRIMSON mentioned this possibility on Jan. 13, when one of the CCA men disclosed that his group was "screening" the Independents for possible choices...
...automobile men, had taken to each other at their first chance meeting two years ago. Six months later, full of hope and mutual admiration, they formed a partnership and bought a Nash agency (the T and M Motors) in Newport. It was a shoestring venture (in case of some unforeseen accident, they took out $10,000 double-indemnity life-insurance policies on each other), but for a while they did well. Dick moved in with Jim and his wife and two children, and they lived together, ate together and worked together...
Love from All. On Wednesday Mrs. Dunbar received a telegram from a suburb of Montreux. "Unforeseen circumstances have arisen," it read. "Am staying here longer. Please advise school boys returning about a week's time. All extremely well. Pink Rose in marvelous form. Love from all, Melinda." Pink Rose was once the pet name for little Melinda (who was born after her father faded away). Detectives found that the wire, written in a hand completely unlike Mrs. MacLean's, had been filed by a large, heavily rouged woman. A few days later the MacLean Chevrolet was found...
Humphrey hedged his predictions to cover unforeseen changes in the national or international situation. He warned, too, that congressional refusal to raise the $275 billion national debt limit (TIME, Aug. 10) left the Treasury "too little headroom for safety." (Last week the national debt stood at $273 billion.) But, barring emergencies, he thought the Administration could squeak through until January without calling Congress to raise the debt limit. And he had high hopes that income and outgo would finally balance by the time fiscal 1955 begins next July...