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Field Events Bleak...
...remainder of the field event picture was bleak. New England Champion Sal Mazzacco and Bob Seller won the broad jump and weight throw respectively for the Huskies. Only Dwight Black, who placed second, looked good for the Crimson in the 35 pound weight throw, indicating that the Crimson may be weak in this event for the first time in several years. In the pole vault, Mello was the only Harvard vaulter clearing 10 feet, 6 inches and, at present, there appears little chance of getting additional depth. Even in the high jump, supposedly one of the Crimson's strongest events...
...appointed day was bleak and drizzly. Only 2,700 people turned out, and they included few notables. Georgia's truculent Herman Talmadge and Mississippi's Fielding Wright, a lame duck, were the only governors present. Other than Byrd, there were no Senators...
...change is most noticeable in Canada. The mean annual temperature of Montreal, said Dr. Kimble, has risen from 42°F in the 1880s to 46°F in 1950. Along the bleak natural boundary between Canada's forests and the barren Arctic, the trees are marching northward. Saplings of tamarack, spruce and birch are appearing where none grew before...
...Atlantic-while Elizabeth slumbered in the 6-by-4-ft. bed of her private cabin-the plane began to nudge the edge of a hurricane. The pilot, Captain Oscar Philip Jones, 52, veteran of 3,000,000 air miles, shifted his course, made an unscheduled fuel stop at bleak Gander, Newfoundland. Airborne again after two hours, Elizabeth visited Jones at the controls-asking, he reported later, "some knowledgeable questions." At noon the plane let down through heavy overcast at Montreal's Dorval airport before a crowd of more than 25,000 people...