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...regime, McGann might give the impression that he would in the role to a T. Yet most of his friends know him as "Uncle Tom." Perhaps it's because he likes to run sessions like a high level cocktail party-often in a student's room-with the waft of sherry in the air and popcorn crackling over a file. Or it may be his willingness to talk about his four children with just as much interest as on Latin American diplomacy. At any rate, McGann always enjoys chatting with students, although he is in the most feverish period...
...freely in space, the crew would feel no gravity at all. In this "zero gravity field," they could neither stand nor sit unless held firmly in position. If they tried to sleep in bunks, the slightest motion would flip them out. The jet effect of even gentle breathing would waft them across the cabin...
Helping Hand. To the Europe-bound traveler, however, the United States will look as luxurious as any ship in the world. Among her features: 2 2 public rooms, two theaters, and kitchens equipped with electronic radar stoves. Her two giant smokestacks, largest ever built, have fishtail fins to waft the ship's exhaust away from the sports and sun decks below...
...Along the broad King's Walk, behind whose fashionable modern apartment buildings lurk some of its best-advertised houses of prostitution, Chinese merchants set up hobbyhorse displays and giant paintings of the King. Incense candles were made ready to be lighted and to waft pleasant smells (very important in Siam) when the King arrived. A youngster got tired of waiting, climbed up into a tree and went to sleep. Passers-by tickled the soles of his feet. He went on sleeping. Police wormed their way through the crowd notifying property owners that a police order issued the day before...
...Harvard Band, whose sterling performances have been helping Crimson rooters waft their sorrows all fall, will come up another winner this weekend with a new, and "unusually good" Princeton medley...