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...steeple jack, painting the spire of Memorial Church, is a rare sight in the Yard, not because the University allows its buildings to become run down, but because he is not a regular employee of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. With a year-round crew of 350 workers and a budget of over a million dollars to finance maintenance operations, the Department seldom has to contract outside help for any type of repair work on University property...
Churning Machines. Such stamina is the secret of the Walter Reed girls' success-and it is not easily come by. Year-round, the youngsters let nothing, not even their school work, interfere with training. Every day finds them out in their sagging, stark black swim suits, ready to start a practice session by 7 a.m. And every morning, under the calm and skillful guidance of Army Pfc. Stan...
...coming tennis amateur needs is a taste for the right clothes, a talent for cocktail-party chatter and a superior knack for belting tennis balls. It is no trick at all to parlay such gifts into a year-round, expenses-paid vacation-wives and kids included. But many young players are not satisfied with such mild rewards. After he won the U.S. singles title in the summer of 1953, crew-cut Tournament Traveler Tony Trabert announced his intentions: for another season or so he would make a name for himself in amateur tennis; then he would be open to offers...
Cold Cold War. The Argentine flotilla set out from Buenos Aires in mid-December to carry supplies and men to Argentina's eight permanent antarctic outposts, and to bring back the men whose one-year tours of polar duty were done. On the shore of a bay at 78° south, 39° west, the expedition built a ninth year-round outpost-a weather station-and left 20 men to staff it. Buenos Aires claimed that it was the southernmost permanent base in the antarctic...
...Drive-in theaters, once strictly a summer phenomenon, are doing year-round business in 14 U.S. cities, defying snow and freezing temperatures. The drive-ins keep their customers cozy by providing, for an extra 25?, a portable electric fan-forced heater for the floor...