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Rash Venture. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Store Executive Charles DeMore good-naturedly helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...
...lock all controls on the Air Force's enormous double-decked troop-carrying C124 Globemasters, pilots have to pull up a knob on the throttle pedestal. To release them before a takeoff, it is necessary to push the knob down past four notches: the throttles are freed at the first notch, the ailerons are unlocked at the second...
...more. On working days, the mine is a clangorous labyrinth where dynamite blasts are fired, power shovels snort, trucks rumble along black,*glittering galleries as high as five-story houses. This week the mine was silent as the miners observed the holidays. But on Christmas Eve, they would troop back to the hillside entrances with their families, and plod 2,600 ft. down into the mountain. There, for the first time, they were to hear Father Luis Posada, mine chaplain, say Midnight Mass in the great underground church, only one of its kind in the world, which the miners carved...
...faced Student Council members made freshmen troop to the ballot box twice yesterday in order to elect their eight man Smoker Committee...
...type of activity is at best a feeble rationalization of the new parietal rules, and at worst an insincere one. Harvard men lead notoriously irregular lives, and it is not for the Dean's Office to work them into a pattern by which at a given hour all will troop off together to the Blockhouse or Lamont. Harvard men play hockey at 7:30 in the morning and squash at 10 at night. They study until 3 in the morning and they sleep until noon. Some of them get up at 6 a.m. and study all morning. In any case...