Drilling Platform costing $28 million has been designed to reach the earth's mantel, located some three miles below the ocean floor. The National Science Foundation has two sites under consideration for the drilling. One is located near Puerto Rico in the Atlantic and the other is near Hawaii in the Pacific.

On the Short End. Here are three American Leaguers talking it over in the club house before the All-Star game at Cincinnati July 6, won by the National League Team. Talk was all that Red Ruffing (center) Yankee pitcher got. Roger Cramer (left) of the Boston Red Sox played left field for a while but didn't get a hit or a putout and Jimmy Foxx, another Red Sox, played at first and at third, garnering a single and five putouts. The final score was 4-1.

Fire in Central Sq., Cambridge.

On the Ellipse-- Young people lounge on the ellipse, a park between the Washington Monument, background, and the White House today.

View of the Blind Asylum Institution, South Boston