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Fast Middlesex passing and hard checking, plus a sub-par performance by the Crimson midfield, combined to give the prep schoolers a 4 to 0 first period lead...
...Construction of three experimental submarines at a cost of $50 million. One would be a target and research sub, designed to test the high-speed hull needed for atomic power. The other two would be a 250-ton baby submarine and a 2,200-tonner carrying its own oxygen supply for a "closed cycle" power plant, eliminating the need for surface breathing...
...good deal more of the "talking out" takes place at Sulzberger's daily lunch in the Times dining room with the top editors. Distinguished guests who often attend the luncheons are gravely assured by Publisher Sulzberger, who never tires of a single pun, that anything they say is sub rosa. (Point: the ceiling is garlanded with roses.) The male members of this exclusive luncheon club are Managing Editor James; Assistant Managing Editor Catledge; Assistant to the Publisher (and son-in-law) Orvil Eugene Dryfoos; Editor Charles Merz, boss of the editorial page; General Adler; Washington Correspondent Krock (when...
...fare no better than politicians, industrialists, economists and plain citizens: the longer they work, the more complex things get. Delving into the secrets of the atomic nucleus, which once seemed fairly simple, the physicists are finding a new, mysterious and baffling world. Apparently the nucleus contains all sorts of sub-atomic particles...
...dredging and flood control projects that the government undertakes are given over to the Army Engineers, responsible directly to Congress. The Engineers hire sub-contractors and bear the entire cost of projects from the tidy appropriation. Even if the improvement helps only one individual or company, the Government still has to pay the bill. This is the one way Congress has of letting the people back home know that the legislators are looking after their interests...