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Drop in the Bucket...
...Faculty members would be invited to take advantage of the Institute, to meet the residents and offer them their own ideas. But the program is not designed with the idea of enticing students to go into politics, since any such plan would be merely a drop in the bucket. Contact with residents and visitors would strengthen the political aspirations of those who aspire already. But Neustadt might wonder whether any of the programs he now has in mind would have induced John F. Kenedy '40, varsity swimmer and club man, to come over to the Institute...
...first round by Ingemar Johansson, and confined for five weeks to a California mental hospital. The best fight of the evening occurred when two fans in the $20 seats unaccountably started punching each other in a dispute over tickets and somebody knocked over Terrell's water bucket. Then the boys on the program took over...
Within fifteen minutes after the alarm was sounded at 5:10, (the fire had been put out a half hour earlier with a bucket of water) the nine trucks (plus a couple of police cars) had the building surrounded. As a big hydraulic ladder crunched against the top of the building, two firemen rushed inside...
...bowler-hat and mink-coat contingent can now shop at Fortnum's for women's wear, men's clothing, leather goods, linens, even TV sets. A toy department offers miniature Rolls-Royces and hand-carved rocking horses. The gifts department has a $190 crystal champagne bucket and a $700 crocodile-skin desk set. There is also an antique department in which almost nothing is less than $1,000, and a boutique with the latest designs by St. Laurent. All of this change at first unsettled Fortnum's old customers. "It isn't that we have...