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Most of the changes desired by the Masters relate to the dining halls. Sound-proofing, building dining rooms for small meetings, and removing steam tables from the main hall are among the "pipe dreams" suggested by House officials...
With the exception of Winthrop, most House officials feel that the steam tables should be moved back into the kitchens. Such an arrangement would facilitate transportation of food from the kitchens to the cafeteria line, and would serve to enlarge the area of the halls for meals and dramatic and social events...
...wing New Statesman spotted the Russian trap: "Very well, says Mr. Khrushchev. I have a heavy meal to digest; let us all stop eating until I am hungry again." And even as the Soviets were congratulating themselves on the effectiveness of their "noble gesture" on British public opinion, the steam was visibly going out of Britain's ban-the-H-bomb movement. The noise made by pacifists and leftists who favor nuclear disarmament for Britain continued; last week nearly 4,000 of them, a ragtag army accompanied by skiffle musicians, set forth from Trafalgar Square in a protest march...
...other mysterious sounds of the undersea. Says Thach: "You've got all sorts of noises down there in that jungle. They are decoys protecting the enemy. Fish talk to one another and smack their lips. Porpoises whistle and amorous whales sound like a fleet moving at full steam. Shrimps chew on things and make an ungodly racket. But those whales! They even foul up our magnetic detectors. They nibble at old wrecks and get nuts and bolts in their bellies. Reading the sound and the clues in that jungle...
...said Arctic Explorer Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen. who never understood what a man wanted with the steam-heated creature comforts of civilization. Yet in civilization or out. inferior was hardly the word for Freuchen. who managed to fashion successful careers as newspaperman, lecturer, travel writer and novelist (Eskimo ). During World War II, the vigorous Dane found time to fight in his country's anti-Nazi underground. Last summer he became a familiar figure across the U.S. as the fifth contestant to hit the jackpot on television's The $64,000 Question.* Later, at the start of one more...