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Besides Partlow, high jumpers in the six-foot bracket include Captain Bob Haydock, Gil Aertsen, and Irving Michelman. And on an approximately even par with the Sophomore kangaroo are Rock Hollands and Paul Morgan. The shotput and discus trio of George Downing, Howie Mendel, and Nat Heard is perhaps the strongest unit on the team, while Bill Shallow, Arnie Gale, and Bob Sears will bear the brunt of the hammer-throwing...
What was this doing on an examination paper? Geography was about deserts like the Sahara; the blue Mediterranean; deep Norway fjords running into the bald rock; goats grazing in the hills; Chinamen binding sheaves of rice...
...soldiers in Eire and on those Irishmen who sought compromise with Britain became so embarrassing that Premier Eamon de Valera, an I.R.A. fighter before he became reconciled to the policy of compromise, ordered it disarmed, dissolved. But I.R.A. extremists were not to be stopped. Up in the hills of rock-walled County Donegal, in the purple bogs of County Mayo and windswept County Clare they began to drill and equip a new army, reported to be 15,000 strong. If the bombings continue, they are certain to disrupt the policy of friendly understanding which Premier de Valera has achieved with...
...port of Aden lies on the edge of a huge, volcanic rock on the tilted coast of southwest Arabia about 100 miles from the mouth of the Red Sea. Romans called the neighboring territory Arabia Felix. Kipling, with a sharper eye for the facts, called Aden "a barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard...
Aden's rock is so bare that only three clumps of foliage can be seen from the sea. Having not one natural source of drinking water, residents must be satisfied with condensed sea water, with the trickles from artesian wells, one 1,500 feet deep, or with the stagnant liquid in rain-wells which ancient Persians are supposed to have cut in the rocks. Colonials' rum-punches are earthy and their cats red-brown from omnipresent dust. Malaria and other tropical diseases are common. Only industries are manufacture of salt and cigarets (which are sold very cheaply under...