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Speaker Joe Martin thought things were shaping up nicely. He had just seen his brood of House Republicans drop their squabbles, and obediently line up to be counted for a rock-solid party vote. The issue was the constitutional amendment to limit a President to two terms. Not a Republican wavered as Democratic whip John McCormack wailed: "It will make the Constitution rigid. It ties the hands of future generations." Of the 238 Republicans present, 238 voted right. With 47 Democrats joining them, the vote was 15 more than needed for a two-thirds majority. Joe was pleased...
...done. The Navy's Antarctic expedition was primarily interested in 1) bolstering U.S. Antarctic claims and 2) training Navy personnel for Arctic operations. Notable findings: great, mountain-bordered bays never mapped before (see map); a newly discovered peak, Mt. X-Ray (15,000 ft.); plenty of bare rock, of interest to mineral hunters...
...chiefly responsible for this thriller's good qualities is evidently Delmer Daves, who wrote the script, found and imaginatively used the excellent back-country locations, and directed some remarkably fresh scenes of adolescent love and rebellion. Veterans Robinson and Anderson are rock-solid in their roles until Mr. Robinson is required to go too melodramatically bats. Lon McCallister, 23, whose nascent film career (Stage Door...
Army, Yale and Princeton normally round out the League, although the Tiger's this year are not in the running. While Dartmouth now rides the crest of the wave, the West Point Cadets are scraping rock bottom with no prospects of rising. Four League losses topped by a 9 to 1 shellacking at the hands of the Elis round out a generally dismal season. Wingman Art Snyder lines up as their only real scoring threat, while goalie Gerald Wojciehoski has stood up staunchly in the nets under a hall of flying pucks...
Short Wave. Near the Scilly Isles, England, BBC Announcer Edward Ward and his engineer went to lonely Bishop Rock Lighthouse for a three-minute broadcast, were marooned by high seas for 27 days...