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...divorce or take a course in something. By the end of these 600 pages, Martha has indeed left her husband, and also joined a Communist Party cell. But Martha is moved to redecorate her mind by impulses that would prompt a less intelligent woman to change the slip covers in her living room. She serves the cause of world revolution because she is bored with serving tea cakes...
Acting president Mrs. Gilbert began the ceremony with a well-received Freudian slip: "This is a president--uh, precedent--shattering celebration...
Tenacious ball-hawking and sharp passing by center half Bill Kerstetter, and aggressive tackling and long clears by sophomore fullback Karl Lunkenheimer successfully thwarted Brown's fast-break offense, though both Bruin wings were constantly left uncovered, and they occasionally threatened to slip through for open shots...
Despite the lid of censorship, there are those lucky students whose freshman advisors have let the magic number slip out in the course of cock-tail conversation, and those doubly lucky ones who, when told their number, found it was a good one. A smiling senior in the second category confided, "I've been group five for three years running, but I'm always able to say, 'I'm smart; the College had me pegged for group...
...Peking, moreover, has launched a missile program guided by Chien Hsueh-shen, 52, a 1938 Caltech Ph.D. grad and jet-propulsion specialist. Chien was chief of the rocket section of the U.S. Scientific Commission on National Defense during World War II. In 1950 he was caught trying to slip out of California, bound for Red China. He was finally permitted to leave the U.S. in 1955, surfaced immediately in Peking. The status of his missile program is obscure, but it is known that a missile range has been laid out near the Sinkiang nuclear testing ground. Some observers believe that...