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...placed. The amusement company is responsible for servicing the machines, an important job, as an irate student has been known to wreck one when it failed to pay off with free games. Competition by students for the available machines is occasionally keen; during reading period a group of the buzz-and-flash enthusiasts set up a syndicate to hold down a single game, assigning members to occupy it at designated hours...
...foremost pranksters of the Dada school of art which preceded surrealism. Dada, said Arp in a recently published book of his writings (On My Way; Wittenborn, Schultz, $4.50), "gave the bourgeois a sense of confusion and distant, yet mighty rumbling, so that his bells began to buzz, his safes frowned and his honors broke out in spots...
...well-kept secret. For several months, Pan American Airways' canny President Juan Terry Trippe had been dickering with American Airlines' Chairman C. R. Smith. But not till last week did any hint of the dickering leak out. This week, as Wall Street began to buzz with rumors, Juan Trippe sprang the news. American had agreed to sell Pan Am its transatlantic subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines...
Last week, with the military revolutions in Peru and Venezuela fresh in mind, more than one Latin American capital was jittery about how the cavalry would vote. Latest to buzz with alarms and rumors was Quito, capital of Ecuador, where President Galo Plaza Lasso was tiffing with his own party (Movimiento Civico Democrático National). Hottest rumors: 1) army officers were angry over slow promotions; 2) aviation officers were angry over delayed pay raises; 3) Socialist leaders were trying to organize an anti-government movement among noncoms. TIME'S Quito correspondent cabled: "The government is not shaky...
...authorities are looking into the situation. They wouldn't be high authorities, of course, if they didn't look into situations, and study matters, and investigate conditions. That is the rightful function of all high authorities and student council committees. But in the meantime the busy signals continue to buzz. And in the opinion of one non-authority who has never belonged to any student council of any kind, the solution is for somebody to decide to put in more telephone lines. This sounds simple...