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...showed that the Mexicans were at last beginning to bring in new oil to supplement the old fields the foreign companies left them. Already, U.S. crews working for Pemex were drilling in the swamps west of Tenixtepec in hopes of tapping new underground pools. Next week, a new ten-inch pipeline will carry the first Tenixtepec oil into Pemex' 1,200-mi. national network...
...particularly good game against Princeton. Dave Yale, a top flight two way player as a freshman last year, will start at right end and will probably go both ways. Ron Abdow, the only veteran end, may see a great deal of action either way. Ken Lyons, six foot two inch sophomore, who also played both ways as a freshman, may start at left end today, with reserve back Charley Judkins spelling him on defense...
...ball was fun," the six-foot, one-inch, 185-pound Maras recalls. "Of course, I was too small to play tackle in that competition, so they made me a center...
...holes have been dug between Linden and Holyoke Streets, most of them in front of Claverly Hall. The workmen are tightening joints on a 24 inch gas pipe, which sprung a leak several weeks ago and began to disturb residents of Claverly. A minute trickle of gas was escaping from the feed line into the basement of the dormitory through a conduit...
This week Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of CalTech announced his conclusion that these filaments are probably the rule in space, rather than the exception. With the 48-inch Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain he found hundreds of luminous "bridges" connecting widely separated galaxies. The length of one curved bridge, sharp as a lighted boulevard, is more than 72,000 light-years (430,000 trillion miles...