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...most spectacular crash, the Clark University's women's varsity eight hit the Eliot St. Bridges on a sharp curve and totaled the bow of a two week old $7,000 shell...
...crew did not hear the commands and failed to negotiate the turn recalls Clark Coach Carla Odiaga, adding that the inexperienced cox, working without a speaker system in the boat, was trying to pass another shell as she negotiated the turn...
...marital entropy. A husband returns o a spouse-swapping party after taking his wife home. Her subdued reaction con-ains the author's gloomy assessment of the situation, if not of the entire age of affluence and permissiveness. "The outer suburb was what it was, so was the shell of middle age; she didn't complain because it would be silly to complain when you were fed and clothed and comfortable, when your children were cared for and warm, when you were loved and respected...
...whizzing from the ground. It rose straight up about a quarter-mile. There the fuel seemed to ignite all at once, instead of in a stream, as planned. The roar sent Worcester ambulances and police hunting for tragedy. They found Professor Goddard and assistants inquisitively studying his rocket shell, which had landed near the site of its propulsion...
...come to finish Ernest Hemingway's. At 39, in life's prime, he has chosen to be in the midst of death. Madrid, whence last fortnight he cabled a first dispatch to the N. Y. Times, was what he described as quiet; but a shell hit the hotel where he was shaving one morning. Whether his remaining chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what is to happen to Hemingway, U. S. readers last week could reassure themselves...