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...been some years since we last proposed that the police and the City Council of Cambridge do something about the open-field, no-holds-barred crossroads at the junction of Plympton and Bow Streets. Since then scarcely a month has passed without its complement of crinkled fenders and bumped-in sides, and scarcely a day without its close shaves. And we have watched, from our nearby vantage point, with something like fascination, as the police have come and gone investigating each crash, and the tow trucks have busily fetched and carried, and still no stop sign or traffic light...
...coaster Combinatie, as he put out of Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small water supply, and the captain's own son, Cornelius, was in charge of her ancient but serviceable diesel engine. "We're going to have a fine trip," shouted Captain Van Delft down the engine-room hatch to Cornelius, and Cornelius agreed...
...death, George Santayana '86 is a somewhat ambiguous figure, surround by the usual complement of myth and legend...
...Protests. The news explained beyond much doubt what had happened to the first missing plane, an equally defenseless transport used as a "flying classroom" for Swedish air force radio operators, and to its complement of eight. The Baltic from Finland to Danzig was aswim with Soviet warships and submarines, the sky was thick with Russian jets; all were engaged in sea and air maneuvers...
...full complement for the 1952 to 1953 Association will be made when 12 first-year men are elected next fall. The present 18 first-year men were elected last month-three from each of the six class sections...