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...called on Brazilian and Indian units deployed along the Israeli border, inspected a hospital staffed by Canadians and Norwegians. At their encampment, the Swedes built a big bonfire in his honor near the beach and tried to celebrate his arrival with the traditional Swedish long dance (they had to abandon it because of the sandy footing). At dinner the Indians (to whom Christmas is not a religious holiday) provided a group of bagpipers for entertainment. At Khan Yunis, the Colombians rigged up cardboard boxes that spouted artificial snow. Then Hammarskjold attended midnight Mass in an army tent, as buglers...
Partially because of such conditions, more than three out of four students enrolled in law, science, or letters abandon their studies after only one year. Says Chemistry Professor Prevost: "Unless our authorities act fast, the whole system of higher education will disintegrate...
There being no press in the south Atlantic and no readers in Cambridge, the Crime will abandon publication until January 6, 1958, at which time Cambridge's only breakfast table daily will again return to action...
...stopping punches with his face, former Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer was forced to use every weapon he had as he tried to fight his way past Las Vegas' Neal Rivers for another crack at the title. For ten rounds he threw fists, forehead and shoulders with fierce abandon, and for ten rounds he caught as much as he threw. The verdict: a split decision for Fullmer. The surgical count: 16 stitches for Fullmer, only six for Rivers...
...tradition of putting out an extra following the Harvard-Yale game has long been part of the CRIMSON's news philosophy. But this year the Crime has decided to abandon the tradition, since the Yale Daily News has declined in recent years to offer any journalistic competition in this area...