Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cordials & Bicarb. In Texas, where most of the cooking is so bad that bicarb has replaced the after-dinner cordial, many topnotch restaurants, such as Azzarelli's in Houston, are ignored. So many routine drive-ins are listed in Arkansas that top-drawer restaurateurs complain that their own stars pale in comparison...
...tons in 1955 to 2,130,000 tons in 1959, according to the official statistics, it fell short of the 1960 goal of 2,800,000 tons. Even the most important newspapers, such as People's Daily, have been put on a starvation diet. Readers inside China hardly complain: there will just be less space in which not to find the news. Only exceptions to the paper austerity program are exports. By Mao's order, the gospel according to Peking is still flowing as freely as ever to the uncommitted countries of Latin America and Africa...
...Cliffies frequently and justly complain that the dorm system provides few opportunities for sustained informal contact with faculty members. What little association there is between the faculty and Radcliffe girls under the present system--teas, special dinners, sherries--is inevitably stilted and artificial. And while the funereal atmosphere of these semi-official gatherings lend itself to mockery, the lack of contact with older minds remains one of the most serious defects in a Radcliffe education. The new Houses are to have a ratio of resident and affiliate associates roughly equivalent to that of the Harvard House...
...Landrum, who yearns to become Governor of Georgia and would like labor's support. Stepping up the pressure, White House Aide Larry O'Brien had in groups of Congressmen for breakfast almost every day, preaching: "Go along with us, just this once. If the voters back home complain, we'll leave you alone on our other bills...
...Council to be, or what he thinks CRIMSON editorial policy should be, or what numbers he wants to hear the Glee Club sing. And, of course, the Council, the CRIMSON, and the Glee Club have an equal right to ignore him. It seems strange that the Council would complain about "meddling," since a large part of its job is to inquire, often inexpertly, into the affairs of the University...