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First event on the 1938 ski calendar is the Harvard Race, open to all undergraduates, on January 9 at Mount Washington. All contestants will race on Sherburn trial in the morning, with the first twenty competing in a run-off on the stiffer Wildcat trial in the afternoon...
...partisan primaries last month Maurice Sugar, counsel to the United Automobile Workers, and Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. vice president and hero of the Ford "Battle of the Overpass." both placed among the first nine of the 18 councilmanic candidates named for the run-off election (TIME, Oct. 18). Three other U. A. W. candidates earned places on the councilmanic ballot...
...office. Backed by Labor's Non-Partisan League, now nothing more than C. I. O.'s national political arm, the United Automobile Workers proposed to bid for control of the fourth city of the land. Detroit's charter provides for a nonpartisan primary with a run-off election. Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which is elected at large. The purpose of last week's primary was to narrow the field of mayoralty candidates from five to two, the councilmen...
...will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long, 500 ft. high. It will swallow up 9,500,000 cu. yd. of concrete, three times the quantity required for Boulder; produce 2,520,000 electric horsepower compared with 750,000 of Russia's vaunted Dnieper...
...five coveys and one single, but made a false point and obeyed none too well for his famed handler, Ed Farrior. The judges also liked Golfer Glenna Collett Vare's Tips's Manitoba Jake and G. M. Livingstone's Shanghai Express, called them back for a run-off when the first series was over. Shanghai started off with a false point, handled one covey with style and finish, then sinned heinously by flushing another. Jake, who had backed Shanghai's false point with unsuspecting confidence, located only one covey of his own. Plainly displeased, the judges...