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...Georgian red brick neighbors. As for Le Corbusier's famous concrete sunbreakers, one professor thinks that they show "a fantastically optimistic opinion of the amount of sunlight there is in Cambridge." And finally, since the asymmetrical building is wrapped around symmetrically spaced pilotis, the structural columns are apt to rise any old place in any given room. But if Harvard has its doubts as to whether the center will ever work smoothly, it does not doubt that this modest-sized building has become the most commanding structure in Cambridge...
...third round of the Kashmir talks began in Karachi last week, a cactus plant was prominently placed on the negotiating table in front of India's Chief Negotiator Sardar Swaran Singh-an apt symbol of just how prickly the dispute between India and Pakistan still remains. Yet by the end of the day, the first faint glimmer of compromise was visible. In a sharp departure from its previous inflexible stand, India indicated that it would be willing to partition Kashmir along a boundary other than the current U.N. cease-fire line, which now gives India two-thirds...
...Apt to Malinger." In World War I, Jews had to fight off a crude stereotype of themselves as shirkers. Said one U.S. Army manual: "The foreign-born, and especially Jews, are more apt to malinger than the native-born." The league protested to the White House, and President Wilson ordered the manual destroyed...
Smith and Banks disagreed, saying that the law is too vague and too apt to be misused. Lyons pointed out that it "dates back to a time when it was unusual to be out at night. Like many of our Sunday laws, it is now obsolete...
...been public acceptance of the restyled 1963 Classics and Ambassadors that Abernethy predicts the company will sell 550,000 cars in 1963, an increase of more than 25% over last year. But even if American Motors does not do better in 1963 than in 1962, no one is apt to complain very loudly: reporting last week on the final three months of 1962, AMC announced that its profits for the quarter had jumped 32%, to $12 million, and that sales ($315 million) were the highest for any quarter in the company's history...