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...bothered by any trouble-making union organizers. Amongst secretaries and waitresses, anyone who sticks her neck out will most likely get her head cut off. There's always plenty more heads where that came from. Furthermore, when it looks like most of the employees in a given profession would leap at the next chance to get out altogether, unions are naturally discouraged from trying to organize...
...They caught us while we were in exam period," said Stiles, winner of the pole vault with a leap of 16 feet. "But the team's impression of what's going to happen next week is different now," he added...
Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, 16 hours a day, I will finish the readihg by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for 17 hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levins...
...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependant on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhileration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam...
...behind for long. Ron Chambers, an eventual triple winner in the long and triple jumps and the 60-yd. dash, took the long jump event with a personal best of 24' 9". He was followed closely by Huskie freshman standout Ricky Thompson, who hauled in second place with a leap of 24' 4 1/2." Harvard jumper Sola Mahoney tried his best, surpassed that, but still found himself in third place with a new personal best...