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Both teams passed a tame third period, marked only by Bob Fredo's breakaway goal for Harvard. Pete Waldinger's width-of-the-ice pass sent the junior winger in alone, and he forced the puck through Ryan...
...improbable statistic that not only sums up a complex situation but rivets the attention of the reader. Along his tour he notes that a farm in Chile, the beanpole country hugging 2,600 miles of the continent's west coast, can measure as little as ten feet in width and five miles in length. Paraguay, a landlocked dictatorship the size of California, has only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still...
...fills a wall and keeps going past it, curving until it begins to run parallel with the extreme left and right aisles. Finally it stops--just short of engulfing the audience. A Cinerama screen is breathtaking: the height of the one in Boston in 25 feet and the width (stated as a chord drawn from one end of the curved screen to the other) is 64 feet. The height to width ratio of the projected image is 1 to 2.85, and that they (quite rightly) call Super Panavision...
Another problem which students presented to Mrs. Bunting is the width of the steep, wooden stairs: 31 inches. One Cliffie commented that she "would not ask any friend of mine to risk his life carrying anything downstairs that weighed more than ten pounds." Mrs. Bunting tentatively offered to have College workmen or professional movers move everyone out, but another student noted that "anyone carrying things down those stairs is bound to get killed, and Radcliffe workmen have as much right to live...
...there is little chance that Congress will turn down such a princely gesture. Most likely spot will be an area adjacent to the National Gallery. Lady Bird is known to be specially taken with the idea of an outdoor sculpture garden that would extend across the three-block width of the Mall, be available to millions of tourists...