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...freshman's attitude toward the Harvard Union could be generalized into one word, that word would probably be "indifference." The solid building on Quincy Street serves his meals on cartwheel trays, houses his dances, and corrects his Gen. Ed. papers; but between these events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...
...overcome Toscanini's dislike of recordings (he was infuriated by their failure to reproduce the sound of his orchestra as he remembered it), Walter Toscanini built a sound studio in the billiard room in the basement of Toscanini's house in Riverdale (the Upper Bronx), piped tape-recorded music up to a giant speaker in the living room. When the spirit moved him, the old man sat in the living room listening to and judging the full-volume thunder of his orchestra. If a note or a phrase displeased him, he moved his head almost imperceptibly from side...
...paving-and Salk vaccine-got patient, unsmiling audiences but few promises. A worker on the state railways wanted a transfer to another job: Aramburu crisply reminded him that the railways have 30,000 surplus employees. A delegation wanted the government to build their city a recreation hall. "For a billiard parlor?" asked Aramburu. "That sport of idlers...
...idea is a good one, only it should be expanded. Bowling alleys, billiard tables, and a swimming pool should be available. For the more aesthetic, bongo drums and dart boards should be present. No expense should be spared to further mutual understanding and intellectual advancement. The Radcliffe Administration should give serious consideration to this suggestion, and ignore those penny-pinching party-poopers who just advocate keeping Agassiz open a few hours more...
Died. Avraamy Pavlovich Zavenyagin, 55, billiard-bald chief (since 1955) of Russia's euphemistically titled Ministry of Medium Machine Building (i.e., atomic-energy commission ), wartime overseer of much of the slave-labor force; of a coronary thrombosis; in Moscow...