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After class Blitman joins the happy throng headed for Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage. Known as "the Spa," Bartley's combines the best qualities of a Ricky Nelson malt shop and a large brick oven. Cheery red and white signs tumble across two walls. There are too many to read, so don't try. They are all about hamburgers, anyway; Mr. Bartley's offers twenty different kinds, ranging from Hawaiian to Saute'ed Mushroom...
...rebels are fighting for full independence from the north. Northern Moslems are dark-skinned people who are either nomadic or live in mud-brick houses and work on plantations, growing the cotton that is the Sudan's only big cash earner abroad. In contrast, the flat-nosed blacks in the south live in thatched huts in the rain forests and on the savannas, are largely tied to a subsistence agriculture. Many of the tribesmen living in the south are converted Christians who feel that the regime tries to make them bow to the will-and many of the religion...
...possible location for the track is the site of the present freshman track, but added that this decision as well as all the other details needs considerable study. He said the building might cost as little as $100,000. A plastic dome is far cheaper than a steel and brick construction, he said...
...Finley the essence and strength of Harvard is the House system, the College's defense against the pressure and particularization of the University. "Berkeley shows how good Harvard is. Those fellows out there have no connection with anything." A bit of brick-and-ivy security, "Eliot House is the village within a metropolis...
...Monkey Fizz." The town's only hostelry, the Hotel Aqua, raised its rates to $8 a 'day, and soapboxes sprouted on every corner. Chicago's radio station WGN set up the first nationwide radio hookup to cover the trial in Dayton's bell-towered, red brick courthouse. Bald-pated William Jennings Bryan, munching radishes by the sackful because he was on a diet, starred for the prosecution and sold Florida real estate on the side; Clarence Darrow, in a straw katy and snappy galluses, handled the defense with all the warmth of a cobra...