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...doughnuts, 15 cents), Trumbull announced that he would discontinue service to the House. Grill Manager Bruce R. Thomas '62-4 maintained a modest silence throughout the controversy. But Michael T. B. Dennis '64, Chairman of the Eliot House Committee, praised the House for successfully defending its honor against the "Monster to the North." "Physically," he said, "we have been violated; but socially and psychologically we have emerged from this struggle stronger than before...
...least bit of attention to this "monster" who wrote such a sarcastic and completely untrue review of it [Oct. 11]. He is sure to receive just one small lump of coal in his stocking this year...
True, a few families have had a minimum amount of power. Buster Bray has kept the Dirty Shame alight with electricity generated by a diesel Caterpillar in a shed behind the saloon. But "the Monster," as he calls it, has been running night and day for three years. It costs $26 a day, and, when it coughs at night, it wakes up folks for miles around. Bray is waiting impatiently for the rural cooperative to string its power-line to his part of the valley...
...Soviet Air Force, later (1957-59) boss of Aeroflot, the civil airline, a bomber pilot chosen by Stalin to develop a Red version of SAC in case the missiles went pffft, later picked by Khrushchev to make Aeroflot, world's biggest carrier, a Soviet showcase with monster TU-114 airliners, which turned out to be uneconomical passenger editions of the Bear bomber; somewhere in the Soviet Union...
...sights; Congress opened its pockets and poured all asked-for funds into NASA's outstretched hands. The U.S. space program sprouted like Jack's beanstalk, sucking up men and money at a prodigious rate, sending its tendrils into every state. Infant space industries grew overnight to monster maturity. Scientists and engineers flocked to space centers to find their pots of gold. There seemed no end to the bonanza. Before it was over, the moon race might cost $40 billion, but no one seemed to care...