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...Notwithstanding age-old traditions peculiar to colleges, honored and retained here and there, and the outbreaks of enthusiasm moistened with alcohol after big games, at fraternity, alumni, and other group affairs, liquor enjoyment is not 'collegiate.' Resort to it and dependence upon it follow social, family, and community standards...
...age-old tradition, the installation will take place in the presence of the symbols of the President's office--the College Charter of 1650, the Record Books of the College, and the College Seals and Keys...
...M.I.T. commissioned Michigan Architect Eero Saarinen, whose wicketlike design for a Jefferson memorial in St. Louis caused a sensation five years ago (TIME, March 8, 1948), to submit plans for a new campus center with auditorium and chapel. Saarinen's idea: to challenge the age-old rectangle with a new pattern of spheres, cylinders and triangles...
...nine black-caped judges of the federal court of appeals in Rio pondered an age-old question: Are men and women equal? The question had been raised again by pretty Maria Sandra Cordeiro de Mello, 21-year-old daughter of a wealthy army colonel. Ambitious to be a diplomat, Maria Sandra had appealed a lower court ruling which held that the government may exclude women from its diplomatic service...
...Mexico, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros are all-weather Communists; France's Fernand Leger often parrots the party line; so does Italy's Renato Guttuso. Last week two of modern art's foremost painters, both avowed Communists, were displaying their latest approach to an age-old theme: war and peace...