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Ever since its formation, the Harvard Young Progressive Club has fallen afoul of two minor College regulations. These rules, requiring each undergraduate organization to have two faculty or alumni advisers and to submit membership lists to University Hall, have kept the YPs perpetually teetering on the line between recognition and oblivion...
...middle of nowhere, and the two pipelines to the Mediterranean were greatly inadequate. I.P.C. began building new lines. One, through Palestine, was stopped by the Arab-Israeli war, and has never been completed. Another, through Lebanon, was finished but quickly proved too small. A third, through Syria, ran afoul of Syrian government scheming...
...Informer. In Tulsa, Bootlegger Eugene Mace fell afoul of the law when cops, investigating his stuck car horn, looked under the hood, found 1) a large bug causing a short circuit in the horn wires, 2) 16 bottles of whisky...
...Honor. Some were inclined to blame the honor system rather than the students. "Its chief weakness," said Dean Henry G. Doyle of George Washington University, "is that every man pledges himself to be guard not only of his own honor, but of that of his fellows. This immediately runs afoul of the tradition against the tattle-tale." Added Manhattan Psychiatrist Marion Kenworthy, "We older persons . . . are as responsible as the students when we create psychological temptations...
...Mussolini for a world's fair that never came off, Nerone centers on two sightseeing U.S. sailors who are knocked unconscious by thugs, carried back to a dream world of Nero's Rome. For the rest of the picture they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling in a vast Roman bath, clad...