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...snow-covered summit. Poorly provisioned and clothed, his party was forced to turn back by a roaring blizzard. Pike predicted that the summit would never be reached by man. But 14 years later it was scaled (by someone else); in 1835 it was recorded on a map as Pikes Peak...
Last week, the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor of Colorado Springs, which lies on the plain below Pikes Peak, uncorked a magnificent scheme to build a tomb for Zeb Pike on the mountaintop he never reached. Colorado papers, scent ing another tourist attraction, played the story big; the Colorado delegation in Congress whooped it up. Said a Chamber of Commerce official: "If we can just get old Zeb and add him to the rest of the stuff we got here, it'll mean millions, boy, millions...
With the revelation that upperclassmen living in the Yard next year will be given non-resident House privileges, the House masters have at long last decided to assume their share of the College's over-crowding. It is unfortunate that the masters let this peak year slip by, when the Union was jammed as never before. Meal lines at the theoretically "freshman" enter were of magnitude that threatened to obscure the highly-important activities program, and it seemed clearly up to the Houses to take at least the exiles living in Claverly and Apley. But the Houses contented themselves with...
Police ended that riot, but still, the yelling goes on with undiminished intensity. Yesterday, things hit their peak for Altrocchi. A shoeshine gamin, strolling under his window, looked up and screeched, "Hey, Altrocchi, wanna shine...
...boom been reached? The department found some evidence that it had. In three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still cheaper than at the peak of the World War I boom, as the cash yield per acre is now 59% higher...