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Thirty minutes after the Memorial Hall clock booms out the matin eight bells today, 470-odd sweating registrants will begin their scramble for seats on the Harvard academic band-wagon, already holding a record crowd of over...
...shoulder to the wheel, that he was even starting to work on an Eisenhower campaign fund. Then, on the day before New Year's, while General Ike was vacationing in Florida with his wife, Cissie Patterson's Washington Times Herald-which likes a sensation-gave the wagon a hefty shove...
...four more years Elyniak worked for farmers at Gretna, drew $80 a year plus 80 bu. of wheat and 40 bu. of barley. He bought a team of oxen, two cows, 30 chickens, a wagon and a plow, shipped them west to Edmonton in a freight car, then drove another 50 miles east to Chipman. There he settled with other Ukrainians, raised three sons and four daughters. The homesteading was rough, but not as hard as in the Ukraine...
...Moines, Iowa, the Welcome Wagon Service-which gives newcomers to the city sample products from local merchants and manufacturers-tried but hastily abandoned a subsidiary service: the delivery of six bottles of beer to newcomers, brides and mothers of newborn babies...
...present dozen or so. "Out in the country," said Ed, "they are going to take our churches away from us. The younger generation is moving away from these farms. Things is different from when my father used to put all us kids in the back end of a wagon and away we'd go a-bellering...