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Cooney Welland's men, with only one day of practice since the end of exams, will be playing without the services of defenseman Jack Carman, who was graduated in February, and wing Morgy Hatch, who won't be dressing because of a Navy drill. The Eagles have already played two games since the end of their exams, beating Dartmouth, 5 to 4, and Northeastern...
...workout on the day before Christmas. While California took the day off, Michigan went grimly to work on a set of new plays. Oosterbaan had decided that California's powerhouse ground game would have to be met with a brand-new bag of tricks, but after the special drill, Oosterbaan was still "thoroughly discontented" with his team's progress...
Rocket Oil Drills. Last week, with a $25 million backlog bulging its pocket, Aerojet announced that its $10 million plant at Azusa (almost completely paid for) was not big enough. It bought 7,200 acres 16 miles east of Sacramento to build a new $6,000,000 plant. Much of Aerojet's experimental work is secret but, among other things, it is working on 1) rocket units for underwater propulsion, 2) rocket-propelled missiles, and 3) a rocket-powered oil drill...
...Hungnam. That night Hungnam rocked to still more violent and ever-increasing explosions around the U.S. perimeter. Great orange masses of flame swirled brilliantly up into the skies and then subsided again. The perimeter shrank slowly but steadily. The evacuation went on like an orderly, well-rehearsed fire drill...
...Eugene Gardner, a brilliant young nuclear physicist, was working in 1942 at Berkeley, Calif, with the Manhattan (atom bomb) Project. His secret work required him to drill a hole in an electrode made of beryllium oxide. Out of the hole a fine dust rose, and 29-year-old Gardner inhaled it. He did not know, nor did anyone know at the time, that the beryllium in the dust was a slow, implacable poison...