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...complained about these divisions since the majority of the undergraduates came from similar backgrounds and did similar things. But today they have become official headaches. Building a house system as a solution would be a $10,000,000 project which Dean of Students William Lippincott calls a bout as realistic as pressing a $10,000,000 button on a slot machine...
...YEARS, by John Marquand (466 pp.; Little, Brown; $5). The plot line of this three-decade collection of short stories (plus a few nonfiction pieces of reminiscence) is familiar: boy meets code, boy breaks code, code breaks boy. The codes are Boston and family, club and army. After a bout of spiritual beachcombing, the slightly disenchanted heroes generally return to pukka grace. Boston is the city Marquand almost hates to love, but love it he must-though he is not above shaking his own family tree for laughs. Most of the fiction was written for big-circulation magazines, and even...
...told 600 Hoosier Republican leaders that he had noticed a letdown in G.O.P. spirits since the 1952 landslide. He was reminded of Luis Angel Firpo, the South American heavyweight, and Firpo's bout with Jack Dempsey in 1923. Said Ike: "In the first round he knocked Dempsey so far out into the audience that he broke two or three typewriters for the newspapermen. But Dempsey crawled back in the ring and whipped the tar out of him. Now, I don't think the Republican Party has any idea of being a Firpo...
...Mama you look so fine Ridin' around in that Merc'ry forty-nine, Cause I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Yas, I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Ford...
Some Thai fighters get so expert at their special form of assault and battery that they run out of opponents. Often, to keep busy they try western-style boxing on the side (Chamroen, Robert Cohen's opponent in last week's western-style bout, is also his country's featherweight, bantamweight and lightweight champion, Thai style). But without their music, forbidden to use their feet, forced to depend on their padded fists, most Thai fighters are hamstrung. Effete westerners, Thai fans agree, have ruined a fine, manly sport with foolish rules...