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Lawrence H. Johnson '57 of Adams House and Duluth, Minnesota, and Hermann A. Kopp '57 of Leverett House and Oslo, Norway, have been elected to the Permanent Class Committee. Johnson was the victor over Terence S. Turner '57 in a run-off election...
...water conservation disintegrated. Hulagu Khan- and his Mongol hordes rode out of Central Asia, smashed Mesopotamia's elaborate crisscross of canals and dehydrated the Garden of Eden. The waiting Bedouin nomads advanced into the Sinai and Negeb like locusts when Roman and Byzantine authority declined. They demolished vaults, run-off canals and 300-ft. reservoirs. Their goats and camels pushed over terraces, broke fencing, ate the water-hugging groves of trees and stunted tamarisk, and sent the area back to desert. Silt choked the irrigation canals, sand jammed the thousands of storage cisterns, salt caked the wells...
...canopied grandstand at Good Time Park in Goshen, N.Y. In the first heat, Helicopter lost ground by breaking her gait, coasted in 17th in a field of 23 (if three different trotters win the Hambletonian's scheduled three heats, the classic's winner is decided by a run-off heat held for them only). First-heat winner: a 17-10-1 shot, Milky Way Stable's Morse Hanover. The 8-5 favorite, Newport Stock Farm's Newport Star, took only show money...
...Krilium may prove the answer to many erosion problems. When it is sprayed or dusted on bare soil, but not mixed in, it binds the surface particles into a porous, crumbly crust. Even on steep slopes, rain has little effect on it. The Krilium-bound soil holds firm; the run-off water is clear. Another use: when dusted on baseball diamonds and tennis courts, it allows them to be used much sooner after a rain...
...election, the vote took on a national character. The Communists campaigned against "American warmongering," the Gaullists charged that Premier Pleven is trading away France's independence for inadequate U.S. promises. Only candidates with an absolute majority (51%) are elected, and where the vote is split there are run-off elections later, thus providing for a period of horse-trading among the parties...