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GLOUCESTER, Mass.--The third race for the International Fishermen's trophy was postponed today for a ninth time so that official measurement of the disputed waterline and sail area of the two contenders may be taken tomorrow. The race will be sailed Sunday--weather permitting--twice around an 18- mile triangle off Gloucester, the race committee said
...city of Cambridge would be much better off if the total area covered by Harvard had two-family homes on it instead." Sullivan also expressed the general opinion of other members of the Council when he declared that "if Dean Landis had kept out of Plan E the thing would have a much better chance to pass." It is no secret that Landis' branding of the Councilmen as a "bunch of cheap politicians" bitterly antagonized that group, and had a little to do with the introduction of the resolution. It was pointed out in City Hall that the Council...
...resolution exactly as the Council hoped it would--as a big news story. It was played up all day, with most of the papers discussing what "Harvard City" would do as a municipality, what "Harvard City" would do as a municipality, what officers it would have, and what area the "city" would include...
...situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which Adolf Hitler drew on his map at Godesberg...
Already on its way down, one ship from New York landed with only its searchlights to feel the way. Two others went to Milwaukee. Still others approached the area slowly, awaiting a lights-on signal. Then one of these, from Fort Worth, with 15 passengers, prepared to descend. The great field was outlined feebly with lantern light. Down came the ship, its searchlights poking through the black, when suddenly the field lights blazed on and a frantic hour was over. Next day Chicago's City Council decreed immediate installation of an emergency power plant for Chicago Airport...