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Prospects for weekend skiing conditions at Dartmouth are improving. The Daily Dartmouth reported three inches of light powder on Tuesday, and last night the Boston Weather Bureau predicted a snowfall tonight of six to eight inches for New Hampshire and Vermont...
...mile cross-country course in 51 minutes, eight minutes behind the winner, Frank Hurt of Middlebury. Poindexter followed Churchill closely across the finish line in the time of 52:30. Robbins was 24th in 54:09, and Curt Beebe 27th in 55:35. Conditions were fast with windblown powder covering a packed base...
...Tribuno is that so much gets in. There once was a time when martinis had as much vermouth as gin. But now the rage is for dry martinis with dry vermouth in miniscule proportion. The very dry (six to one), the very, very dry (twelve to one) and the powder dry (25 to one) martini have taken over; there is the explosive "Montgomery" at 15 to one and the "Hemingway" at 64 to one. Every drinker has his own private" formula. One Manhattanite buys gin by the case, carefully pours out a twelfth of each bottle, tops them off again...
Last week the CRIMSON carried a piece on the intellectual climate of Germany. Yesterday the author received a letter threatening his life. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived to cover the traditional red doors with white powder, and ordered that nothing in the building be moved...
Looking ahead, many a company saw a race to keep up with expanding markets. Commonwealth Edison Co. announced a five-year $600 million construction program. Hercules Powder planned a $10 million plant at Parlin, N.J., to be completed next year, for production of a new type of polyethylene; this will be the company's first move into plastics production. But money for expansion was getting more expensive. For the second time in three months, Manhattan's big banks boosted interest rates on prime business loans, from 3¼% to 3½%, the highest rate in 25 years...