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...tightrope is symbolic and means dealing with the tenuous Laotian coalition government. The elephants are real and are usually ridden at every Laotian boun (festival). Len Unger finds the boun a boon for he is an excellent ele phant rider...
...phone. It cuts dialing time to two seconds, costs $15 to install, plus $3.50 a month extra, with 40 free cards. This year A.T.&T. will bring out the Trim-line phone, whose dial is embedded in the receiver; aside from being good-looking, it also will be a boon for the nearsighted and the bedridden...
...construction and operation of the new Canal were directed by the OAS, the waterway would serve as more than a boon to shipping and a means of ending the persistent hassles caused by the Panama Canal. The United States would have to bear most of the costs, and would deserve most of the revenues. Provisions for military security might be hard to arrange, but would also be much less critical than they are at the Panama Canal, where a few sticks of dynamite could knock a lock out of operation for months...
...international projects have been debated with such fervor or greeted with such optimism as the St. Lawrence Seaway. When it opened in 1959, its proponents prophesied that it would create "America's fourth seacoast," spread prosperity along its banks, and prove a boon to commercial shippers in the U.S. and Canada, which shared the $470 million cost of building it. After five years of operation, the Seaway has not come near to fulfilling that promise. Last week in Detroit, a Senate commerce subcommittee held hearings to discuss the Seaway's troubles and what can be done about them...
...letter to the parents of undergraduates, Dustin M. Burke '54, Director of Student Employment praises as "a boon to underprivileged students" the new Harvard Student Agencies Tutoring School. A CRIMSON editorial pointing out that the University banned tutoring schools in 1940 draws a fiery reply from Dean Monro, who accuses the paper of "continued unfounded badgering of the HSA and yellow journalistic tactics...