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...Among current strikes, it is the nation's third longest. The strike at J. I. Case Co.'s plant in nearby Racine is four months older; that of Mack Truck Manufacturing Corp. workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is three days older...
...Rocket-line distance from Khartoum toTeheran (on the Persian plateau, Alexander the Great's classic Indian invasion route) is only 1,700 miles. Longest wartime rocket flight was about 200 miles, by a German V2. The V-2 launched in New Mexico last September had a theoretical range of 1,500 miles. Designed, but still dependent on solution of fuel problems, are 3,500-mile rockets. Other rocket-line distances from the African girdle: Khartoum to Suez, 950 miles; Kenya to Moscow, 4,000 miles; Lake Chad to Munich, 2,200 miles; Khartoum to Sofia, 1,800 miles...
...outlook isn't brilliant for those who have neither instruments nor radios. There's nothing for them except parlor games like the one where a group of enthusiasts gather together and see who can listen to the "Jazz At The Philharmonic" Album Number Three the longest without screaming. Oh yes, if three dollars are available any given Saturday, you can always hear the Football Band's trumphet section give out with its "fight" cheer...
...Puritan 10 yard stripe. The Mastadons struck again in the fourth period when George Strout spurted through a gaping hole in the Winthrop line, then ambled 30 yards to score. Although unable to gain on the ground, the Puritans uncorked a flashy passing attack, which gave them their longest advances...
...field, the game was faster, more rugged than ever (see SPORT). The fans had something to see. In Yale's Bowl, filled (except for a few seats) for the first time since 1937, about 65,000 sat through drizzle and downpour and gave their loudest, longest cheers to a Negro fullback. At South Bend, 55,452 swarmed over the town-including many loyal Notre Dame buffs who had never got beyond high school but would travel hundreds of miles to see "their team." Said one from Massachusetts: "Looks like the old days, only more...