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...improving, is still behind that of last year's at a similar time. Only fifteen of Harvard's forty points in last season's Yale flasco have returned. It appears that it will be a weak season and Mikkola's strong interest in his Freshman runners may indicate a search for richer pastures for the future...
...seventh crash on U.S. airlines since last August, the second on Eastern Air Lines in 36 days. (While the ship was missing, the line's president, Eddie Rickenbacker, injured in the first E.A.L. accident, listened from his hospital bed at Atlanta to the radio reports on the search.) That morning, up from Miami, Pilot O'Brien had made a routine stop at West Palm Beach, had headed northwest toward Daytona Beach, knowing he would have to pass through a belt of thunderstorms lying across Florida's width...
Escorted by the Vichy destroyer Simoun, four French freighters nosed out from Casablanca, French Morocco, into the Atlantic last week, making via the Strait of Gibraltar for Oran, French Algeria. "Stop and submit to search," signaled the British patrol in the Strait, but the Vichy ships ploughed...
...good deal by the learned doctors. In The Mask of Sanity, Dr. Cleckley tried to show a class of psychopaths which differs clearly from neurotic alcoholics, psychoneurotics, criminal sex offenders, ordinary criminals, differs also from obvious psychotics or lunatics. The mark of his class is an apparently aimless search for disaster, a sort of continual social and spiritual suicide. These semi-suicides are often, but not always, heavy drinkers. But whereas the neurotic drinker -the classic alcoholic-drinks to avoid reality, to escape feelings of failure, humiliation or inferiority, the disaster-seeking psychopath drinks simply to get himself in trouble...
...Colorado's famous old Cripple Creek mining district, which produced $24,986.990 worth of gold in its peak year (1901), men have been boring a tunnel for 20 months in search of pay dirt. Last month they found it. Water gushed from the rock, sent them scurrying from their tunnel. Soon the flow reached 20,000 gallons a minute-enough to cover an acre of ground to a depth of 100 ft. in a single day. The water level in Cripple Creek's long-flooded mines dropped fast. By last week the 2,600-foot-deep Ajax mine...