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...last autumn Colby's dream campus, a cluster of colonial buildings on a terraced hillside, had so far materialized that the college planned to move in next September...
...radio warfare-we found Filipinos on every island quoting their daily broadcasts. Walking through remote interior sections of the jungle at noontime we suddenly hear The Star-Spangled Banner, then Freedom announces, 'Hello, everyone, everywhere. . . .' Filipinos from occupied cities and areas told us how the people cluster around muffled radios for the Freedom broadcasts, then pass the word along, via grapevine. The broadcasts have been successful because they are written assuming that the Filipinos are all loyal, which is true...
Lowell has been the core of the House system in tradition and in geography since it was opened in 1930. The other Houses appear to cluster about its imposing white bell tower...
...Batavia, doves cluster at dusk on the crocodile cages, supple natives bathe in the filthy canals ("They are a very clean people, but they like their water dirty"). An ancient cannon, sacred but now annoyingly useless, stands at Batavia's Amsterdam Gate. The native women pray to it for fertility and have so many babies that Java has 817 people per square mile. According to native superstition, the cannon has a wife at Bantam on the western end of the island. When the two meet, Dutch rule in Java will...
...time for a quick session with the pinball boards at Harry's Club. Man against machine, amateur against the elements, sucker against Gottlicb. Vag racked-up four frees on the first try but felt no thrill; he groped his way out and left the board to the vultures who cluster for such a moment...