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They rounded a bend, started up a concrete path and saw a pair of 20-mm. Jap guns aimed down the trail. Charlie got them with a squirrel-hunter's "bark" shot, hitting the rock wall beside the guns and splattering them with shell and rock fragments. Next he blasted open the heavy steel doors of a Jap tunnel and set off a store of enemy ammunition...
Most of the missionaries' time had been spent in trying to improve the lives of their fellow fugitives. With medical supplies almost nonexistent, they dressed the wounds of guerrillas. In a deep gorge, they cut seats, altar, lectern and pulpit out of rock and fashioned a chapel. The congregation dwindled as U.S. submarines, supplying the guerrillas, began to evacuate some of the Americans. The missionaries chose to stay...
Against this anticlassical age Roxbury still stands like a small rock. All students are required to take five years of Latin, may take a sixth. The six-year curriculum also includes science, history, mathematics, English, Greek, modern languages. The only other courses are ethics for first-year students, cartography for seniors. Roxbury's present Headmaster George Norton Northrop, proud of his boys' consistent high marks in college entrance examinations, is calmly confident that the prep-school trend is "away from so-called progressive education." High point of the celebration this week was to be a performance...
...greatest problem for many animals is to encounter and recognize a possible mate. A male lamprey eel apparently recognizes sex only by attaching himself with his suctorial mouth to another eel that clings to a rock. If the second eel lets go, it is a male and the two separate. If the second eel holds onto the rock, it is a female...
...each two rounds of play. At Los Angeles' Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange for an autograph-draining of a big lake yielded 16,000 waterlogged pellets for reprocessing...