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There is an easy way to duck out of this dilemma. In conjunction with the Student Council, organizations might establish a scheduling bureau where organizations could list planned events and which all organizations could consult before scheduling. Mr. Deeds, after all, shouldn't have to compete with Tom Joad...
Hong Kong's shops and department stores were bursting with the goods of East & West. In a space of 20 yards on Queen's Road a shopper could have his choice of a Cantonese pressed duck, a London-made Burberry topcoat or a large Chinese Communist flag. The abaci of the money-changers clicked steadily. Passports to European countries were selling for as high as $8,000 apiece. On nearby Ice House Street the firm of Lo & Lo, Solicitors, reported a thriving business...
...overripe tomatoes, firecrackers, toilet paper and bursting flour sacks. His address, which he manfully finished in spite of it all, was punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics in midair...
Challenger Oma made the demonstration as hard as possible. Though he appeared to be walking duck-footed into the champion's best punches, Oma never seemed to get hurt. In his flailing eagerness to please, Charles inadvertently struck low blows in the fifth and eighth rounds, and the crowd booed him. Even the fouls didn't seem to stagger Oma much. In the tenth round, nonetheless, before the crowd realized that Oma had actually been hurt, Oma came apart. Slack-jawed and befuddled from a final series of lefts & rights to the head, he staggered vacantly around...
...trouble with radar is that it is subject to blind spots. Its waves go out in straight lines, like television waves; they cannot duck down behind buildings, hills or other obstacles, and they cannot follow the curvature of the earth (see diagram). So a radar station works best against high-flying airplanes. It can pick them up as far away as 150 miles, but if attacking bombers fly low, they can keep behind the bulge of the earth and get much closer before they are detected. With mountains or other obstacles to give them shelter, they are even harder...