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Richard K. Hurley: Leverett; Fr. and Var. basketball; Varsity Club; Pi Eta Club; Hasty Pudding; Catholic Club...
...second period was actually the only well-played part of an otherwise dull game. The sharp passing and good play making that featured the varsity's 10-1 slaughter of Dartmouth last Saturday seemed to be missing in the first and last periods. In the first, particularly, the var- sity was unable to organize and clear the puck out of its own zone...
...Roger B. Lustrand, a bachelor, "having discovered that most of the children on his Christmas list possess large collections of such records as Quacky Clarinet and Otto the Ophicleide*. . . makes a habit of bringing them LPs of the most recondite sort of music: Schoenberg, neoclassic Stravinsky, or Varèse ... A few of the modern parents in Roger's circle actually rear their children on such music. For them, Lustrand thoughtfully provides a present of the Terry the Timpani variety, the most banal he can find, which inevitably becomes the favorite item in the nursery library...
That was six years ago. Last week Cerro Bolívar and the land around it swarmed with 7,000 men and their machines. Early next year the ore will start flowing north; by 1955 it will be feeding U.S. Steel's new Fairless plant on the Delaware River and supplying 10% of U.S. needs...
Mining Cerro Bolívar will be no easy task. Giant power shovels (the first were arriving this month) will scoop up blasted ore and load it on to trucks which will carry it to the railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the chaparral 90 miles northeast to the black Caroni River, tributary of the Orinoco. For the workers a new town, Ciudad Piar, is sprouting at the foot of Cerro Bolívar, and a new port, Puerto Ordaz, has already been built on the Caroni...