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Arguing that the University is trying to "comply with the spirit of the housing code" even though it plans to build dormitory rooms seven and a half feet high were Robert T. Holloran, an architect for the firm of Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson & Abbot; and Henry J. Muller, Deputy Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...
Almost everything has been tried for controlling the sex of unborn children, including the drinking by the woman (while an abbot prays) of thrice-blessed wine mixed with lion's blood by an alchemist. The New York Daily News in its salad days even had a sex-control editor. But nothing worked. Parents who wanted boys got girls, and vice versa...
...Abbot of Bazinham once computed that in the first thousand years after Charlemagne, French currency was devalued 40 times. In the 19th century, the gold franc was such a rock that the currencies of half Europe were pegged to it. Lately, though officially pegged since 1949 at 350 to the dollar, the franc has fallen almost as often as French governments. Last week at long last the French government took notice of the franc's real worth and, without using the horrid word devaluation, in fact devalued...
...firms are rushing to market preparations containing such acids. All use safflower oil, which contains about 80% linoleic acid, is extracted from seeds of a thistlelike plant long grown in Africa, India, the Middle East. First marketers: San Francisco's Safflower Products Corp. (Saffola), North Chicago's Abbot Laboratories (Saff), Chicago's Armour Laboratories (Arcofac). Saffola is offered as a salad or cooking oil; the others are emulsions to be taken as medicine...
...rabble-rousing race haters. The Rev. Mr. King and his people know they are on the winning side, on the side of the future. The others show all the nervousness and pettiness of people who know they are fighting a losing battle. (THE RT. REV.) LEO A. RUDLOFF, O.S.B. Abbot Dormition Abbey Jerusalem...