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...year to year. Among the easiest of these to correct is the lack of telephone service for over 100 members of the freshman class. These are the residents of Lionel, Mower, and Wigglesworth, three of the Yard's most modern buildings. At the beginning of this year, one Lionel proctor was overwhelmed with requests to use his telephone and complaints about the lack of a public phone. Lionel, Mower, or Wigglesworth have as many students as several freshman entries which already have telephone service. There is no reason why the residents of these three dormitories should have their public...
Stocky, brown-haired Robert Proctor, the 23-year-old team leader, was not the sort to walk away from trouble. Handy with his fists, fluent in Texmex Spanish,* he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz, before he went south to help stamp out aftosa. He had handled plenty of tough situations; he figured he could handle this...
From behind church and cactus rushed 600 screaming men & women armed with clubs and stones. They surrounded the riders, grabbed the soldiers' rifles. Sanchez was beaten into unconsciousness; Proctor fought his way out and dashed towards a wooded area with a mob at his heels. The soldiers escaped to give the alarm...
Three hours later, Sanchez was carried into Toluca hospital. Government police fanned out over the hills looking for Proctor. Only after getting tough with the farmers were they led to a mountain grave. There they found the battered body of Roberto Proctor. He was the ninth official (and second American) to die at the hands of superstitious Mexican farmers fearful that anti-aftosa teams came to do them harm instead of good...
Restless Sophisticates. Adelheide's population ranges in age from 9 to 20. To make as homelike an atmosphere as possible, the children are divided into groups of 25 or 30, each known as a "family" and supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...