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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graduate Student Exchange Program will enable such students enrolled in one of the "Big Eleven" to take advantage of the special facilities, laboratories, and faculty of another university. For example, an Iowa grad student might avail himself of Michigan's Far Eastern Language Library, Wisconsin's biotron or Chicago's colonial historian, Daniel J. Boorstin. By consolidating doctoral study, the program plans to avoid duplication of effort and expenditure wherever possible...
...unromantically short (5 ft. 7 in.), Tormé realized, he had tried to be frighteningly manly. He made a brave show of it, dated Ava Gardner, collected guns, swooped around town on a motorcycle, swore a lot, got tough with nightclub owners, insulted customers-but all to no avail. "Most women who have dug my music have thought I was a little doll," he says grimly, also recalling that his manager once told him, "With your baby face, nobody cares about your opinions...
...that the sweet ladies who run the Winsor Map Room don't do their best for you. They pore over the old handwritten catalogue books and sort through the forests of wall maps, drawers crammed with charts, and stacks of old and valuable atlases. But to little avail. Everything, it seems, is out of place; nothing has been scientifically catalogued...
...avail. The gray old Tower of London has become a Chamber of Horrors, and this merryman has been rendered moping...
There must be kindness; which will best avail...