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They set to stripping her of her movable gear, littering her decks with outmoded radar, communication equipment, boxes of crockery and silverware. A faded jack at her bow, her commission pennant, and her ragged ensign hanging limply aft indicated that she was still a ship of the U.S. Navy, but soon these flags would be hauled down and she would be towed off to the bone yard...
...Russians Again. The Japs organized this country thoroughly: the south was the rice bowl, the north was the workshop (see map). Together the two parts formed a working economic entity; separated they are simply out of gear. The split along the 38th parallel is Korea's biggest, most galling problem. The border isn't closed, but no shipments are coming over...
Harvard's minor sports program shifts into high gear tomorrow as two soccer games and a cross-country meet mark the official opening of the all season...
...sale, as junk, four Liberty ships war-damaged beyond repair. Two of them had been torpedoed, one had been bombed, one had crashed into another vessel, was gutted by fire. If the ships are bought for scrap, purchasers must agree to destroy all motors, engines and other salvageable gear. Reason: to keep these items off an already glutted market. So far the Maritime Commission has received bids for two of the ships: $3,100 and $9,100 (they had cost upward of $1.5 million apiece...
...will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals, never the other way. On leaving at night, the worker will shed his laboratory gear, wash, examine his body for ticks in a six-sided mirror, put on his civvies and go home feeling as safe as any germ-worker...