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...anything to avoid the draft, won't you?" To another: "Did you see the show this evening, or were you already sick?" In the hospitals or in the field, it is not the cheers or the applause that affects Hope most, but "when one of those thick-necked kids come up to you, touches your sleeve and says Thanks,' that's gotta break...
...surface, the 26-kiloton nuclear device was the key tool of Project Gasbuggy, a venture financed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the El Paso Natural Gas Co. and designed to increase natural-gas output. The blast was intended to shatter a large portion of the 285-ft.-thick layer of gas-bearing sandstone lying beneath the Leandro Canyon, thus releasing gas that is tightly locked within the rock. 35-Story Cavity. Ordinarily, gas is obtained simply by drilling a well into a formation of gas-bearing rock. Natural underground pressures then force the gas through pores in the rock...
...core, held in place by iron wire and tacks-which is how French bronze statues in the 1920s were cast. Ordinary X-ray equipment would not penetrate deeply enough to show the interior of the sculpture. But on Sept. 15, Noble, using equipment developed to inspect the six-inch-thick steel hulls of nuclear submarines, was able to have a gamma-ray shadowgraph made. "They held up the film dripping wet, and for the first time I could see inside the horse," he says. "I could see the sand core, the iron wire and the iron points. That...
...breaking of the oosphere. 10a) "Man of" is a far more likely, and grammatical, interpretation of what the Beatles sing than "matter". 11) from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled...
Twelve or more hours a day, seven days a week in March and early April, advocates argue and re-argue their cases, votes are called, applicants are disposed of. As an advocate argues, the Dean pencils notes into his seveninch thick looseleaf filled with computer forms. In the notebook used by former admissions dean Fred L. Glimp last year, there are notes like "Yale son" in a circle, or "soccer" followed by two exclamation points. Next to each name is a red "A" for accept or a blue "R" for reject--or a red "A" crossed out and replaced...