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...running events, things are a bit grimmer than they were last year, when the varsity took first and second in the 1000 and second and third in the 600. Both fields have tightened up since then, and the varsity will be hard-pressed to continue its superiority...
...distant light, amid the crying of seagulls and the clanging of bells-and the same hand is at the helm of Mr. Arcularis. The result is poignant, eerie, fateful, with highly dramatic moments. No other living poet, using heartbeats and a coffin as his props, could convey a grimmer impression of man's syncopated march into the bosom of death...
...acted exactly like Rakosi's old bullyboys. In one day they arrested 400 "rebels and criminals." Five of the arrested were condemned to death and one executed, said Radio Budapest, hinting at mass trials to come. Western sources gave a grimmer estimate of AVH efficiency: over a period of "several days," Western diplomats reported, 241 persons had been executed by summary courts-martial, 170 of them in Budapest...
While the Advocate faces four months in the cold now, matters were even grimmer a few weeks ago when the fund drive stalled $15,000 short of the necessary $45,000. A loan from graduate editors solved the problem late last week...
...radar experts considered electronic failure against human failure, architects tried to explain why the compartmented Andrea Doria sank. In the U.S. an adjourning Congress, without determining its questionable right to act. authorized an investigation of the sinking. Overseas, Italians and Swedes bitterly blamed one another for the loss. Meanwhile, grimmer figures were being figured. The weekend total: 25 dead...