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Mere mention of the words "foreign aid" is enough to bring out the beast in many Congressmen. Yet last week, after four hours of debate, and by a 249 to 148 vote, the House authorized a $3.37 billion foreign aid program-only $12.7 million less than President Johnson had originally asked...
Even though he will have no teaching assignments, Hersey may find it hard to keep up his prolific writing and meet the time-consuming demands of the college. "It's a beast of a problem," confesses the Rev. B. Davie Napier, master of Calhoun and Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation. "It is a deep involvement in the lives of other people. But nobody has a chance to shape, improve, and inspire this collective education as the master does." Thomas G. Bergin, master of Timothy Dwight, who found time to write a new study of Dante, thinks...
Moll Flanders has the high spirits and Hogarthian texture of its ribald predecessor, but lacks Tony Richardson's slashing satire and bold cinematic style. Nonetheless, Director Terence Young (Dr. No, From Russia with Love) proves that the beast in men brings out the best in him-and in Kim Novak as Moll. Her performance as an easy-to-bed beauty for whom the flower of virtue lies ever beyond a thicket of thorny vices is not so much well played as well endowed, but it does reveal untapped energy in one of Hollywood's most marketable natural resources...
...recently became so fired up by the delaying tactics of the House of Lords that he declared in the House of Commons that the Lords had "put a tiger in my tank." In a straight-faced editorial, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung feared that the tiger campaign could unleash "the beast of prey in drivers." Riding on the tiger tale, Esso stations in Europe are pumping record volumes; in France, April sales of Esso Extra rose 32% over last year. Italian motorists now drive up and ask station attendants simply for a pieno di tigre-a tankful of tiger. Italy...
...Widener Library at 7 p.m. this evening. Eliott Forbes will lead the singers in a program featuring some of the lighter music in the Club's repertoire. Included in the concert will be football songs, chansons, old English drinking songs, and, ultimately Fair Harvard. "I" will soothe the beast of your exam period...