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...remorseless killer, she plucks a dainty pistol from her gown and remarks: "I should warn you, I won the ladies' small-arms championship." Rutherford fans are aware by now that every Murder will out more or less the same way, but it does seem a pity to assign so much small-bore comedy to one of moviedom's Big Berthas...
...liberal who favors our Government's policy of intervention in Southeast Asia, I wonder about Professor Hans Morgenthau, Walter Lippmann and their supporters. They strive to isolate American military and political power from non-Chinese areas that they imperiously assign to China's sphere of influence. But they are found to be articulate pleaders for diplomatic and economic intervention by the U.S. insofar as recognition of and trade with Red China are concerned-the wave of the Communist future to be ensured inevitably with aid from the wave of the capitalist past...
Under the new system the Committee will still assign roommate groups to the same House, with a probable limit of six to each group. The applications which freshmen submit will request only a listing of roommates and data pertinent to equal distribution...
...them what they want in each of its 19 stores. Sometimes the buyers are so eager for American goods that they act a bit ridiculous. Last week's shoppers at the new Minimax snatched up cat food whether or not they had cats (the store finally had to assign a clerk to explain that the food was for cats; said one Italian shopper: "Then I'll get a cat"), bought up huge quantities of Kraft's "Italian" salad dressing and ripe olives canned...
...recently released Rockefeller Panel Report on the Performing Arts said "it is only a question of time before specialized training in the performing arts will... be accepted as an appropriate role for institutions of higher education." The report noted that at present Harvard's policy is to assign the performing arts--theatre, music, and dance--to the extracurricular area of student activity...