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...shot down the first MIG-15. The Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group put out of action 504 enemy tanks, 540 flak guns, 441 locomotives, 5,800 trucks in 22 months. Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnel's 22nd Bombardment Wing proved that a B-29 SAC unit could pack up, carry its own supplies 5,000 miles across an ocean, and be in action five days after receiving its orders to move. And it was obvious that SAC squadrons in the U.S. stood alone against any Russian temptation to seize on the diversionary little war as an excuse...
...pack my grip, and go home" before the Cambridge Elks Club, but becomes...
...share-the-wealth proposal to save college football from losing its ability to pack--or even half-fill--the stadia of strictly amateur colleges, was proposed by Yale Athletic Director Robert A. Hall last night. Hall based his radical plan on the results of the extensive survey conducted last fall at many games--including the Harvard-Dartmouth one--and sponsored by the NCAA...
...varsity tilt began with both sides almost equally matched. The Crimson's forward pack played its usual brilliant game and carried the play for the less experienced back-field. But on its own, it couldn't crack the weighty Eli defense...
...strikingly handsome. He has that reserved, proconsular look, the bony nose, the clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the beery John Bull. His speech is slow and unemotional. He is never without a briefcase that bulges, like a refugee's pack, with badly duplicated memoranda and official reports. He is the Rev. Michael Scott; he has no official position, not even a parish. He can point to few positive achievements. Some of his friends claim that he has worsened situations he came to change. Yet he has won himself a rare...