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...motel caper, the University was directly concerned as an interest group and slightly less as a civic leader. It would have been decidedly beneficial to both city and University to have a large parking garage in Brattle Square. As an investment, particularly, it would not have hurt Harvard...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: University and the City: Talk, But Little Action | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...latest caper in Canadian colleges is bed pushing. Born at the University of Rhodesia, and perfected-as was last year's college craze, phone-booth stacking -at South Africa's University of Natal, it spread over some sort of Commonwealth bush telegraph. Last week Canadian college students from Nova Scotia to British Columbia were indefatigably mounting beds on wheels and pushing them over highways, prairies and frozen lakes. The current world's record of 1,000 continuous miles is claimed by a team from Ontario's Queens University, which kept its Simmons rolling day and night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Bed-Pushing Craze | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...years later he was back in Paris, complaining that he had been chased from New York by "the Syndicate." But Martini had apparently learned a caper or two during his U.S. stay. While gangsters like Pierre Cue were shot dead, Businessman Martini secured the backing of Vietnamese and Arab moneylenders and bought up nightclub real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The King Is Dead | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...much to horsehair, Guthrie robustness smacks a bit too much of horseplay. But this Pinafore is Gilbert and Sullivan, not Guthrie and Sullivan. Thus, as Josephine, pretty, pleasing-voiced Marion Studholme sings her arias impeccably for the lovely songs they are; and if Sir Joseph Porter capers, he was always wont to caper, and was always meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Favorites in Manhattan | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...Negro first-graders will show up at white schools on opening day, Sept. 7. Even some convinced segregationists felt that, at best, Davis' maneuvers would only stall the inevitable a little. Lloyd Rittiner, president of the Orleans Parish school board, had three little words for Davis' catfish caper: "It won't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Block Those Kids! | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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