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Your story of "The House & Its Rulers" convinces me that the U.S. Congress is a luxury we can no longer afford. All we have is a group of seniority self-perpetuating, conniving egos that have built a monument of 285 billion reasons why they have failed...
...move seems logical, Frederick H. Joseph '59, a House Committee member, said yesterday, since it is "pretty definite" that the offices in Lehman will shift to the 12-story "business block" to be built between Massachusetts Ave. and Mount Auburn St. When this construction takes place, Dudley House will be torn down, while Lehman Hall will become free for possible use by the Commuters...
Finderson was himself the best basketball player in Brandeis' young history, and in his first season as coach he has built a team out of a largely inexperienced group. An outstanding sophomore center and pivot man, Larry McNulty, is the key man in the Judges' attack. He stands 6 ft., 4 in., and is currently averaging 15.8 points a game...
Betancourt proposes to attack unemployment through encouragement of foreign investment, emphasis on agricultural development, a solid program of public works. Schools must be built for 600,000 children now crowded out. Hospitals are needed; Betancourt says: "We should never again witness the spectacle of two women ready to give birth occupying one single bed." At first Betancourt will be pinched for funds for the reconstruction job. Dictator Perez Jimenez left short-term debts of $1.4 billion, and half of them still remain to be paid...
Bill Tripp set to work on the fiberglass design in 1956 for a Connecticut lawyer named Frederick Lorenzen, who was dissatisfied with wooden boats ("I don't like them. They leak"). Many small boats have been built of fiber glass, but few of ocean-racing size. At the Beetle Boat Co. in East Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport...