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...status of the agreement. But Nasser no longer faced the threat of armed attack by Britain or France, and Britain's Foreign Office acknowledged privately that any attempt at economic boycott could not be long maintained in the face of bitter opposition from shipping companies watching their competitors steam through the canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIDDLE EAST: Nasser's Canal | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...handicapped by the fact that when he had to draw a horse he had to see a horse. When he needed a steam roller as a cartoon symbol, the city council obligingly had one driven under the windows of his studio. An admirer also presented him with a stuffed lion. Low gave it away later, having already decided that the "Olympian pet-shop" of national symbols was not good enough for a real cartoonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Matchstick Historian | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Exterminators have traced the cockroaches in the band room and Union to the University's underground steam tunnels, Kenneth H. Lang '58, band manager, stated yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roaches Traced To Steam Tunnel By Exterminators | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

When contacted last night, a member of the Buildings and Grounds crew refuted the steam tunnel theory. "The steam tunnels are spotless, spick-and-span, all painted white," he said. "I don't see how it's possible for roaches to reside there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roaches Traced To Steam Tunnel By Exterminators | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

WHRB, located in the basement of Dudley Hall, has always been a student owned and operated non-profit commercial radio station. Legends have sprung up to the effect that our signal is "sent through the steam pipes" in some mysterious fashion; actually, the radio signal is impressed on the lighting circuit of each dormitory in the steam tunnels under the University, and these tunnels also contain the lines with which we can send a signal from such places as Sanders Theatre and New Lecture Hall back to the studio, where we can either record it for future use or broadcast...

Author: By Robert C. Valtz, | Title: From the Station Manager... | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

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