Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most interesting of them is Falco, "the boy with the ice cream face," portrayed by Tony Curtis. Falco wants to climb the "golden ladder," to arrive "way up high, where it's always balmy." "Nice to people where it pays to be nice," Falco is assigned by J.J. to break up Suzy's romance. Since he won't get space in J.J.'s column until he does, Falco resorts in turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers. Just to make sure, he plants...
Having wigwagged one relaxing message to the West, the Soviet boss felt called upon to resume his menace. He rose to make an impromptu speech. "Elbow us and we will break your elbow," he growled. "The Western countries who want to maintain the state of war do not want to secure peace. If you want to frighten us, all right, we are frightened. But do not go on frightening...
...service days completed in January '58, Sigmund returned to Cambridge, a tutorial slot at Winthrop House, and a temporary end to travels. He spend the year writing his thesis ("with just a short break for a trip to India"), again assisted in Gov 1 and Gov 106, and this spring was named head tutor in Riesman's Soc Sci 136. And now, along with Master Bullitt, tutors named and unnamed, eighty hand-picked sophomores and juniors and many many uninterviewed freshman, he stands on the threshold of Quincy. Let's hope the threshold holds...
Jordan explained that unlike other colleges, Radcliffe does not attempt to make a profit from room and board payments. The College's over-all policy is to "break even in the long run," which necessitates adjustments in room and board charges. ROOM AND BOARD SCHEDULE Present Fall 1959 Single rooms available in all halls $1,080 $1,130 Planned double rooms (available in Bertram, Comstock, Holmes and Moors Halls) 1,000 1,045 Economy double rooms (available in all Halls) 890 930 Cooperative houses (board not included...
...Finns still joke about their position; "We are a bee in the pants of the Soviet Union; they outnumber us fifty to one, but we put up a better fight." But, lacking the economic independence of Poland and Yugoslavia, they cannot make a break with Russia. The path they tread is narrow indeed...