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...Crimson freshmen golf squad will be out for an expected easy victory over their Indian counterparts. The lineup is: Captain Burt Dudding, Watt Tyler, Ken Elsom, Bob David, Billy Rose, Don Quinn, and Brad Snow. The matches will be played at the Charles River Golf Course...
Bloop to Blurp. With some bush jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone...
...Israelis lit their first candles celebrating the traditional festival of lights (Hanukkah) last week, the government decreed a national dimout. Reason: a fuel shortage that was one indirect consequence of Israel's seven-day victory over Egypt. In homes, hotels and hospitals only one 60-watt light bulb was permitted to burn in any room, and families were restricted to a maximum of 60 kw-h per month. Housewives boned up on how much power each appliance consumed (example: a washing machine uses up one kw-h in 30 minutes), and pinned up self-rationing lists in their kitchens...
...concentrated on high-precision, lightweight amateur radio equipment, soon branched into the growing market of airborne communications. The airlines and the Air Force came to know Art Collins as a bold researcher. In 1937, for example, the Federal Communications Commission had a rule limiting aircraft radio transmitters to 50 watts. Collins developed a 100-watt transmitter that he sold to Braniff Airways. Pink FCC violation slips piled on Braniff's desk, but after a lengthy hassle, the FCC finally permitted Braniff and other carriers to raise their power. Says Collins: "In this business, everything begins with FCC saying...
...Seed. In London, after arresting 15-year-old Frank Watt and a 17-year-old companion for robbing Watt's stepfather of $28 at knifepoint, police found an entry in Frank's diary: "Day off, go home and kill mum and dad, then take money...