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Even in its most conservative moments, the Administration does not contend that it will be possible to build three houses (including Quincy) without increasing the size of the College. About fifty more freshmen were admitted this year to fill the space opened by Quincy, which was supposed to take care of most deconversions. It follows that unless the room rent policy is radically revised, almost all the space opened by the two succeeding houses and by Leverett towers will go into pure expansion...
Second, he has embarked on an ambitious endowment fund to build the Department library into a worthwhile collection on military studies and national security. The Shannon Fund, named after Col. James T. Shannon, commander of the Harvard Regiment in World War I, has, at latest count, collected $1760 of its $5000 goal...
Gromyko was making an obvious move to build up prestige for the East German Communist regime...
...restore calm, Lleras canceled the increase. To keep the calm, he will have to pull another miracle of statesmanship -a miracle that will build new industries to put Colombia's hungry manpower, currently growing at the rate of 70,000 a year, to work...
...Financier Harry Payne Whitney. She sculpted a monumental statue of Buffalo Bill, in 1924 donated it to the town of Cody, along with 40 acres of land, as the nucleus of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Five years ago her son, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney,* donated $250,000 to build the new gallery, which in effect transforms the old center into the major museum his mother had envisioned-a place, said son Whitney, "where you will see Western history at its best...