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...left the streetcar just as twilight was beginning to settle over one of South Boston's dingier neighborhoods. This was to be my night watching the Wearever Waterless Cookwear salesman prepare a dinner. The Wearever Company offers part-time jobs to students, and requires each applicant to spend some time with one of the Company's representatives as training for the job. After a five-minute walk I reached the three-decker walkup where I was to meet the salesman...
...Glass Inc. last week showed off its 16 new designs for the fall and winter trade. Recessed into the store's grey, black and white walls, or set out on square pedestals and tables, the glassware ranged from a chubby crystal mug ($8.50) to a graceful three-tiered waterless fountain...
...scheme works it would end New Yorkers' dry Tuesdays and waterless weekends; city dwellers could shave two or three times a day and shower whenever they pleased...
Things we will miss around Harvard: the "Bang bang bang" of Tom McNoeley of the boxing department ... the unique spectacle of a master sergeant waxing a floor ... "Stand steady!" ... the waterless showers at Dillon Field House ... the sweet aroma de sweat at 85 degrees in the cage--and STILL they ask us to do deep breathing ... lectures and films on the tactical use of the 63 1/2 millimeter anti-balloon carbine (obsolete since 1906) ... trying to read the SERVICE NEWS through a maze of misprints and proof readers' lapses ... all the things we'd like to print...
...shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...