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...Paris, when Communist Scientist-Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie walked into the Collège de France auditorium for a lecture on atomic physics, he was greeted with a volley of catcalls, stink bombs and firecrackers. By the time the cops arrived, the explosive students had disappeared...
...proceeded. I was in the fourth jeep from the front and Colonel Kim, the R.O.K. commander, was just ahead. As we rounded a curve the whole side of the mountain ahead of us opened up with fire. Colonel Kim's driver was mortally wounded by the first volley. My jeep was hit all over as we went for the ditch and fired back. My interpreter was killed and several others were hit. Twenty-five minutes later the enemy had overrun our position...
...Colleges are pitted against one another in 15 sports, while the Houses meet in one more. Volley ball is an exclusive at Cambridge, while only the Blue competes in handball. The Harvard champions meet the first-place Yale teams in touch football, basketball, hockey, squash, swimming, baseball, golf, rowing, and tennis...
...Yard Champions journeyed to Yale and fought a Bulldog pick-up team 0 to 0 tie in the freshman quadrangle. Dissipated condition from the previous evening, the early hour of play, Yale student spectators, and an occasional volley of beer cans, all hindered the Lionel six from scoring that...
...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...