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Last week, intent on proving that whatever capitalists can do, they can do better, the Russians announced plans for building a glass-walled annex to Moscow's 100-year-old National Hotel on Gorky Street, long considered by visitors to be one of Russia's poor best. This was just the beginning. Scheduled to rise beside the onion domes and red walls of the Kremlin is a huge, twelve-story block surmounted by a 20-story tower which, say the Russians, will be the largest hotel in Europe. It will contain 3,400 air-conditioned rooms, four lobbies...
...based on the superficial arguments that woman students might suffer from lack of attention and that educational experiments might be severely curtailed under a joint administration. In reality, a merger might cause Harvard to consider Radcliffe's position more thoroughly when making decisions which now do not affect the Annex in theory but do in practice. And there is no educational experiment in recent years which has not applied equally to Radcliffe and Harvard undergraduates...
...group hopes to obtain the Poets Theatre (near the Coop textbook Annex) for its performances. Anita Scott '60 and Phil DuSault '59 will produce both shows...
Children of Darkness is couched in Mr. Mayer's approximation of the elegant, cynical wit which the English Restoration famously bequeathed to the eighteenth century. It is set in an annex to the Newgate jail, where the villains of The Beggar's Opera sang like caged birds. Yet it obstreperously violates a cardinal rule of the genre to which it aspires to belong: the rule that says that no character may be endowed with the ability to feel profound and communicable pain. The picturesque discomfiture and knavery that are familiar and amusing in Congreve and Gay are gradually...
...portrait of retiring Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan will be presented to the annex by Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The unveiling will take place at the Radcliffe Graduate Center this afternoon at 6:30 p.m. at a dinner in honor of President and Mrs. Jordan given by members of the Radcliffe administrative staff and the Board of Trustees...