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Harvard College meant to take no chances. As a postwar requirement, every freshman living in Harvard Yard's hallowed but inflammable old halls had to know how to make a quick exit by rope. Last week the dean's office declared there had been too much backsliding in rope sliding, ordered all proctors to see that their charges had clambered down a twelve-footer at least twice. Some, like Freshman John Brown of Holworthy Hall, practised from their windows (see cut), others in the gym. Among Harvard's reasons from stricter enforcement: last winter's Kenyon...
Last week an Indian boy walked into the Victoria Times office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when boats upset on rapids. White men do not never learn...
Franconia Notch, New Hampshire: The lower open slope has 12 inches of packed powder snow. No skiing will be permitted on the trails but the rope tow will operate today and tomorrow...
Pico Peak, Rutland, Vermont: Eight inches of settled powder reported on the lower B slope. Rope tow and T-bar will run this weekend. Skiing fair...
Paxton's chauffeurs managed, with wire and rope, to get the jeep to a mud-hut village. There the local garrison commander, who had taught himself English in order to listen to BBC broadcasts and read the Reader's Digest, put his men to work and all but rebuilt the jeep overnight...