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...spokesman for Gargoyle, the College's humor magazine, which by rumor is implicated in the theft, merely pointed out that this is Ibis-mating time. "The Lampoon can keep the broom," he said. "It belongs to the University anyway...
...Lampoon's sacred Ibis, perched for these many years on the 'Poon Castle, has been stolen. In its place resides a broom...
...bulky (5 ft. 11½ in., 187 Ibs.) frame and his reddish, whisk-broom thatch are a familiar sight in the Capitol's corridors. In turn, Larry has made it his business to meet nearly all the inhabitants of Capitol Hill at a marathon succession of cocktail parties and at leisurely Sunday brunches on the O'Brien's Georgetown terrace, with Wife Elva presiding at meals that include O'Brien potatoes. But O'Brien has remembered the Kennedy warning: although he is liked by nearly everyone, Republican as well as Democrat, on the Hill...
...Jacksonville, Ill. farm where he was raised. Recognizing his physical disadvantages. Jerry Barber patiently fitted himself for the game. He built up his wrists and shoulders with a daily regimen of weight lifting and calisthenics, spent hours exercising with a homemade contraption-a lo-lb. weight tied to a broom handle. Wherever he played for the money, he painstakingly stalked the course first, making observations and carefully noting down the pitch of every green...
...devices. Instead, they may be part of Project Vela, a new group whose purpose is to discover how far away underground nuclear explosions can be detected. Such tests would probably use old-style bombs, and the Russians and others might be invited to participate or observe. But on dry Broom Lake in the isolated northeast corner of the range, a 1,500-ft. tower is under construction for far more advanced testing. On its top will soon perch a small, unshielded nuclear reactor designed to give powerful bursts of neutrons and gamma rays for short periods. There will...