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...lounge," most customers probably do not know it exists. Beyond the lunch counter a dirty red sign hangs, pointing toward Leavitt's pool room. Upstairs past the last collection of baseball bats in Cambridge and the broken crew oars, one finds a musty room, littered with empty cardboard boxes. There under shaded lamps stand the pool tables. One is covered with cartons, but the other seven are ready for use. The cues wait covered with dust in the racks, and red stiff-backed stools line the far wall...
...Irma," the mechanical bookkeeper, thumbs through Fall term study cards as two University Hall secretaries ply her cardboard appetite. Although "Irma" worked for free last Tuesday, her rates have now spiraled to $10 a card for tardy students...
...attic office at McGill University in Montreal, Psychologist Woodburn Heron pays students $20 a day to lie on a soft bed in a soundproofed, air-conditioned cubicle. The students' eyes are covered by translucent goggles so that they see only a foggy glow. On their hands they wear cardboard gauntlets over thick gloves to deaden their sense of touch...
Stratton introduced Ike, and the applause was tumultuous. Speaking from notes printed in large block letters on pieces of cardboard, the President worked into a recital of the progress made since he took office with a Republican Congress. The Korean war had been ended. Said Ike: "Obviously, all of us know that the composition that was reached in Korea is not satisfactory to America, but it is far better than to continue the bloody, dreary sacrifice of lives with no possible strictly military victory in sight." At home, the President said, controls had been lifted, inflation avoided, a sensible farm...
Shake-Out. Salt prepackaged in little (4 oz.) cardboard shakers was brought out by Chicago's Morton Salt Co. Price: about 25? for a packet of three...