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...with muffled oars against thole pins that New England fishermen ferried Washington across the Delaware . . . Thole pins went out with button shoes and derby hats...
...atomic defense has revived in recent weeks with talk of "fantastic weapons"-bomb-bearing missiles, atomic subs and planes. The talk is of an atomic Army, Navy and Air Force, small teams of specialists who can send an atom-laden rocket 10,000 miles at the push of a button. U.S. military men think such talk dangerously misleading. It will be years, perhaps decades, before the U.S. will have a satisfactory intercontinental rocket. Even then, no amount of atomic weapons can take the place of men with guns on the battlefield...
...fell dead, another lay mortally wounded, a third was stretched on the floor seriously hurt, while a fourth bullet snapped a waistcoat button off a key witness. Spectators dived under benches and hid behind chairs as Boris scattered 20 more shots about the courtroom. When both guns were empty, he paused for a moment to reload. He fired two more shots. Then the touchy fellow aimed a third at his own temple and pulled the trigger...
...push button" case, is the exception and not the rule. Placement figures have always been high; and if anyone regrets the existence of the Business School, Fortune Magazine commented recently, it's probably the firms that can't offer enough to attract Harvard men into their organizations. Many banks and accounting firms can't easily afford starting salaries much over $250 a month; but the average firm operating through the school's Placement Office these days is bidding around $300 in starting salary...
Take all this as a roundup of a fairly, agreeable sports picture, toss in a world's champion (Dick Button) and a national junior champion (Dudley Richards) figure skater, then multiply the record of an amateur football team by a hundred, and it adds up to a decline in Harvard athletics. That's the formula today.The Cambridge crew beat the Crimson by 1 1/2 lengths on the Charles last April, but the Harvard varsity eight came back to lead a clean sweep over Yale at the end of June...