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...what would appear to be a campaign to enforce upon students a scrupulous regard for Cambridge parking regulations. It is a curious fact, however, that the professed philosophy, as explained by the Police to this student, behind this action is not an increased reverence for law but rather a benign desire to protect the students themselves from the towing charges of the Cambridge Police. Yet anyone taking the trouble to discover the faces will find that towing, under the present law, is directed only toward perpetual out of state violators who torn-up or do not return tickets and never...
Died. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 69, scholarly New Deal Senator from Utah (1932-50) a sponsor of the G.I. Bill of Rights, and Truman-appointed High Commissioner of the U.S. trust territories in the Pacific; of pulmonary infarction; in Honolulu. A benign Ph. D., Thomas served five years as a Mormon missionary in Japan, taught Latin, Greek, political science and Oriental history at the University of Utah, wrote six books (Sukui No Michi. Chinese Political Thought, The Four Fears, etc.), doodled in Japanese...
Thomas F. McGann, Instructor in History and tutor at Kirkland House, has a face which is hard to forget. His placid expression, underlined by a black mustache gives him the appearance of a benign dictator. Having spent several years in Argentina before and during Person's regime, McGann might give the impression that he would in the role to a T. Yet most of his friends know him as "Uncle Tom." Perhaps it's because he likes to run sessions like a high level cocktail party-often in a student's room-with the waft of sherry...
...luck, so he had no qualms about going off to Florida for a Christmas vacation. On Christmas Eve, his office tracked him down in St. Petersburg to relay a message: call the Russian embassy. Reston did, and the Christmas morning Times, in five-column headlines, accompanied by a benign photograph of Stalin, obligingly served up Old Joe's newest call to peace on earth...
Last year. U.S. filmgoers made his acquaintance in the sardonic and powerful Japanese movie. Rashomon. Filmed with stylized elegance and thrumming with barbaric force, Rashomon nonetheless softened Akutagawa's savage original, In a Grove, with a benign ending. Readers with hardy digestions can now compare the two and sample five other Akutagawa short stories of lesser scope, all of which combine a bitter misanthropy with a craft that is as spare and durable as bamboo...