Word: bulletined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What excitement there was came after the balloting. In London on election night, crowds 15,000-strong thronged the traditional gathering places, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, to watch the returns posted on huge bulletin boards. Balloon hawkers ("Red, a tanner, blue, a tanner") did a brisk business in party symbols, while raucous students, their colleges identifiable by the color of their scarves, greeted the election results with boos and cheers. The crowd's mood was more festive than partisan. Piccadilly's streetwalkers were out in three times their usual force, and a cordon of policemen surrounded...
Like maidless Yale (TIME, Oct. 15), Harvard has been having servant troubles too. This term, in two undergraduate and two graduate dormitories, college officials substituted student porters for the traditional "biddies." Last week the Harvard Alumni Bulletin gave the experiment only a slight chance of success. "Some . . . are reasonably satisfied with the work of their porters up to now. But there are those . . . who have an indefinable emotional repulsion toward the idea of their fellow students prowling through their beds and papers every morning...
Material sent to the Bulletin office atop PBH is translated when necessary, processed by rewrite editors, headed by Kennan, and turned over to ISIS area experts--students who have traveled in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe--who check it for accuracy and suitability in their respective areas...
...Bulletin is nicknamed the "Student Leaders' Trade Journal" and rightly lives up to its name. Only the leader of a particular group will receive the pamphlet. He will then translate, if necessary (it is printed in English only), and post it for the group members to read. Although the Bulletin's total press--or mimeograph--run is only 1,000 copies each edition, the circulation will be many times that. "We hope to expand the project when response and finances have improved," Kennan said last night. "Funds have been earmarked for expansion and for a Southeastern Asian student seminar...
However, the editors remind contributors. "The Bulletin will not set itself up as an omniscient agency to dictate--in abstract terms--the perfect solution of problems ... it will primarily be interested in fostering an exchange of practical, technical information on student problems...