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With the wind working actively for Yale, Harvard found life increasingly frustrating. Bill Grana's dramatic 35 yard run sparked a march of 50 yards that ended one inch short of a first down on the Yale 29. Other Harvard chances at the ball started and ended in the Crimson half of the field...
...more practical, but seemingly fantastic Italian proposition was accepted by UNESCO in 1961. According to this plan, all the rock above the temple would be cut away and the whole mass enclosed in concrete. Then, 300 synchronized hydraulic jacks would begin to raise the temple, one-sixteenth of an inch at a time. After every foot of progress, the space underneath would be filled in with concrete. The temple would eventually reach the top of the cliff supported by 186 feet of concrete. The excavated rock would provide it with a natural setting, and everything would be much as before...
...Frontiersman, "a truly amazing woman, one of the rare hostesses who know how to combine fun with the power play." At 46, her skin has been lightly bronzed by the sun of Bar Harbor summers and Palm Beach winters. She is 5 ft. 8 in., scarcely an inch shorter than her husband. Her hair, rinsed a soft honey blonde, frames an angular face with high cheekbones. Long, curling lashes fringe blue eyes with just a touch of green in them. Her mouth is wide-too wide-but when she smiles or contorts it in the often losing battle with...
Japan's disaster toll last week stood at 450 in the Kyushu mine explosion, and 162 in the three-train wreck near Yokohama. As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long...
...with lung damage already far advanced received little benefit, but those with only moderate damage showed remarkable improvement after continuous treatment for two years or more. They could be far more active physically, they slept better (a boon to worn-out parents), they gained weight, and one grew three inches in 18 months as compared with only three-quarters of an inch in the preceding 18 months...