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...residents of Radcliffe's Avon House--13 Cliffies, the resident couple plus four-year-old son, the janitor, and the maid--applied as a group for admission to Yale. The Cliffies said they were tired of being "second-class citizens" at Harvard, but they also said they wouldn't move south unless. Yale accepted their whole group...
Slightly pedantic word play, cultural booby traps, brisk leaps from the Bard of Avon to the Good Ship Lollipop, elegant divertissements for all occasions ?such things can be expected of Nabokov. But that is far from all. Russian by birth, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Switzerland, he has become, at 70, the greatest living American novelist, and the most original writer and stylist since Joyce. He is also an exile, a man who has triumphantly survived this century of the refugee, a man who has lost everything, yet transformed his losses through art and levity into...
Gains and Fumbles. In this year's first quarter, earnings set records at Xerox, Avon Products, IBM, Uniroyal, Bendix and Continental Can. Many companies succeeded very well in squeezing more out of sales. Though its revenues dropped 7% compared with last year's first quarter, McDonnell Douglas' earnings climbed 157%, partly because the company got its troubled Douglas commercial-aircraft division under control. At Union Carbide, profits jumped 28% on a sales increase of only 8%, partly because of a drive to cut costs and increase production at existing facilities. Runaway prices for wood products lifted profits...
...increase in police patrols of the Radcliffe Quad and surrounding areas including Avon St., Garden St., Shepard St., and all of Linnaean...
Full House. To bring out the play's down-to-earthness, Hall filmed it not in a studio but in a tangled English wood located only twelve miles from Stratford-on-Avon. Though it rained continuously, Hall and his shivering actors tramped for six weeks through the forest with hand-held cameras-"they give a sense of breathing," says Hall-trying to capture what he calls "that wet, steaming, glistening quality that only an English summer can have...