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...Last week Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that it was time to make better use of Britannica and its film and publishing subsidiaries in his favorite crusade: adult education. He turned over the university to President Ernest C. Colwell for nine months, and moved to the Loop to work full time at Britannica...
...Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...
Mantz was an old hand, but he was the only one to have take-off trouble: for five costly minutes after he was airborne, the landing gear of his red-&-white P-51 failed to retract, until he went into a sharp loop...
...Threat. Many Bolivian regimes (Villarroel's was an exception) have been in the pay of the tin barons. Until Bolivia's economy is broadened or until cheaper Malayan production knocks high-cost Bolivian tin for a loop, tin rule will be a threat...
...Loop newsstand sales jumped as much as 50%. Sweltering shoppers forgot the heat (99.9 degrees) and bought two and three editions of their favorite papers. City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips. Haggard, red-eyed city editors, living on the brink of collapse and in constant fear of being scooped, deployed every available man, woman and copy boy on the story. Wherever the state's attorney or defense attorney went, squads of legmen went...