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...Princeton, at 7 a.m., Harvard's big band piled out of its special train on the weed-covered tracks below the station, began its tootling march across Old Nassau's campus. Out from the dormitories spilled Princeton men in pajamas. A few -ex-G.I.s-carried rifles. They got what they wanted from Harvard's band: Princeton tunes...
Unlike other Crimson coaches, whose main problem is to weed the most promising candidates from a wealth of material, Mikkola is this term virtually stating from scratch. Cross country has been dormant here since 1942 when the Crimson harriers climaxed a record season by downing Yale and Princeton in a triangular meet before folding up shop for the duration...
...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...
Vulnerability of a plant to chemical killing depends on many qualities, and no two species are exactly alike. Agricultural chemists were studying crop plants and their commonest weed enemies from every possible angle. They were looking for the key difference which would make weeds vulnerable to some chemical which did not hurt the crop. Chances looked good...
Suburbanites battle the dogged dandelion with a chemical- 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). Last week dirt farmers cheered its weed-killing feats. It had proved effective against bindweed, a wild morning-glory that is the worst weed in western grain fields. 2,4-D killed bindweed without hurting the grain...