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...greatest obstacle for space travel ers to overcome is man himself. The human body is fitted to meet conditions on the surface of the earth, where the temperature varies only slightly and the pull of gravitation varies hardly at all. The atmosphere provides a steady supply of oxygen, while its cushioning bulk over head protects man's delicate hide from nearly all meteors and ultraviolet, X and cosmic rays. For man to leave this sheltered environment is as difficult as it was for his fishlike forerunners to slither up on to dry land...
...that the Princeton line is heavy or especially strong. But it is very fast and very clever. Tiger frontmen could pull out of the line with sufficient skill to execute Coach Caldwell's complex maneuvers and when a Princeton back broke away he could always be sure of picking up blockers who would clean up the secondary. Harvard linemen haven't the speed to catch up with Clasby, and the sophomore tailback, however astutely he would a camper through the line or around an end, was sure to run ultimately into a mess of opposition secondary...
...hers. The Washington Times-Herald (now owned by Chicago's Britain-hating Colonel Bertie McCormick) did run a cartoon which showed the Princess and her husband riding a broomstick, and which was captioned "Trick or Treat." Further more, it reported that the Princess forgot at one point to pull the shades before changing her dress at Blair House. Except for this sniping, she enjoyed a fine press...
Reversal. When McKinney stopped talking, Fair Dealers and Southern Democrats cheered. Next day McKinney tackled the gravest party scandal of all: he urged the President to see that all U.S. collectors of internal revenue are appointed through civil service instead of political pull. After listening to McKinney, Truman reversed his own stand of three weeks earlier, announced that he would ask Congress to enact the civil-service proposal into law next January...
Yale, Cornell, and possibly Navy also have outside chances to pull an upset. The Elis showed depth in defeating Harvard and Princeton last week and with two key men back from the injured list, are the second choice...