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Eliot House ha a new coat of green paint on its tower, and next year Lowell or Dunster, or both, may also be repainted...
...freezing December night in 1928, a weird-looking little monoplane called "the Doodlebug" took off from a Milwaukee airfield and headed hopefully in the general direction of New York City. Designer-Pilot James S. McDonnell Jr., then 29, hoped to make aviation history by a daring night flight. Ha also hoped to prove that his plane was the safest in the air, thus get enough orders to start manufacturing the air "flivver." But he had scarcely cleared Milwaukee before the engine began flying apart. By a well-executed dead-stick landing in a farmer's field Pilot McDonnell saved...
...ha, now I remember. I made them a year ago ... When [they] suggested 26 talks on music I wasn't enthralled. I said it was impossible to talk for 26 hours on music. It would bore everybody to death. However, I tried a few, and you know they were not quite so completely idiotic as I had thought...
...later days, when Rollo was gone, Normans resorted to the cry of "Haro" (possibly a contraction of "Ha, Rollo") to call the old duke's attention to the new wickedness that stalked the land. In time the Clameur de Haro became the Norman equivalent for a court injunction, a legal demand to stop wrongdoing. The Code Napoleon put Haro out of business in Normandy proper, but in Channel Islands law the Clameur de Haro still had the force of law and "Haro being called, the enterprise must cease...
Actually, the campaign stumbled at the start. All parties, especially the Tories, were uncertain how to interpret a new election law. It limits what a candidate may legally spend to ?450, plus twopence for each voter in a county constituency, a penny ha'penny for each voter in a borough constituency. The law says that victorious candidates can be unseated if it is proved that they and their supporters spent more than the legal limit. The big question was: Would the courts decide that expenses of regular month-to-month political propaganda were chargeable against individual candidates as campaign...