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...which he is now working on a plan to bring in groups of foreign hunters. The police no longer keep any watch over their popular prisoner, who could easily escape by rowing the few miles across to the Greek island of Samos. Says Sub-Governor Turk: "Ken came here unknown and without friends. But today we in Kusadasi, all of us, consider him one of our own citizens. He has proved to be a man we can trust...
...chances for a record-shattering time in the varsity heavies look fairly dim. For one thing, the 1948 race was rowed with a favorable tide and a substantial tailwind. This year's wind direction is an unknown factor and local fishermen are looking for a slack tide. So, unless the Crimson gets a strong north wind at their backs, there won't be a new record. In any case, Harvard should win and be on their way to Henley and Lucerne by this time next week...
...cent of the Class of '65--and the College as a whole--went for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater. With the outcome apparent, the College watched the campaign with the doggedness that a TV addict brings to a repeat of his favorite show. Teddy Kennedy left his unknown opponent Howard Whitmore for dead, and he might as well have been for all the difference it made, as Teddy won by a million votes...
...speaker was German-born Kurt Schwitters; the year, 1931. Seventeen years later, he died in exile in England, all but unknown. As a current retrospective of 163 works in Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery shows, he was never a major figure in the abstract movement, but he raised the art of collage from a scissors-and-glue pastime into a serious, if topical, medium that makes him seem fresh again in a season dominated...
That horrible smell turned out to be issuing from two sulphur bombs, commonly known as stink bombs, planted in Langdell earlier that evening by person or persons unknown. Two Circulation Desk attendants, Lawrence Corbett and Alfrado Ochoa, followed their noses and found a shoebox containing one bomb outside the door of the south entrance to the Reading Room. Soon afterwards, an unidentified law student discovered the second in a phone booth at the south stairwell in the basement...