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...ruin a fall, of course and it was a long way to exam period. But there were two developments that tempered weekend enthusiasm and made defeats all the worse. The day of the wooden goalposts was gone, replaced by an era of solid steel things. Drinking at games had gotten out of hand, they said, and "obvious violators" would be thrown out before they and their drinks could get into the game. Columnist Red Smith chided the H.A.A. for depriving spectators of "the only solace that would serve" when the Crimson wasn't winning...
Last week Iberia proudly announced its gross for 1954: $12,500,000, an alltime record. With more planes gross income could have been twice as much. Said one Iberia executive: "It's just gotten too big for us. We have to refuse hundreds of people every day." Potholes & Safety Belts. The reason for Iberia's booming business is simply that flying is the best way to get around in Spain. By rail, the 312-mile trip to Barcelona from Madrid takes all day, costs $9.50 on a rattletrap train. Highway travel is just as bad-over narrow, potholed...
...Congressional Dinner and told some thuddingly tasteless anecdotes about his wife, Oregon State Representative Maurine Neuberger. He recalled that the Republicans had published a picture of Maurine in a bathing suit during the 1952 campaign, when she was running for the state legislature. Noting that she had gotten more votes than Dwight Eisenhower in her district, Neuberger added a quotation that he attributed to Mark Twain: "It just goes to prove that the voters would rather see Lillian Russell naked than General Grant in full dress uniform...
...Edward H. Kass of the Surgical Cline had an unconfirmed report of one student who had slipped and sprained his wrist slightly. "If so many people fell," Kass said, "they all must have gotten...
...already considering rearming Germany without us, and in September they were on the point of doing it without limitations or controls," he argued. "If we refuse it, they will do it just the same." Deputies hooted in disbelief. Had they not defied the last threat of "agonizing reappraisal" and gotten away with it? Mendes recited the new guarantees he had extracted from the U.S. and Britain, and their guarantee of the Saar deal. He pleaded against abstention-though he himself had abstained from voting on NATO and EDC. "It would be better to say no than to refrain from voting...