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...Garden of Eden," as one student believes, or a place of "little shrill idealism," as another thinks? The reader can take his choice though Auchincloss, who apparently enjoyed his own tutelage at Groton, emphasizes the shrillness. Auchincloss is careful to disassociate his hero-headmaster from any real-life counterpart like Groton's Endicott Peabody, but Old Boys everywhere will nevertheless recognize the rector as a familiar enough type. Auchincloss may seem to have expended too much sound and fury over something so small in the universe as a prep school; a crazed old man like Lear (upon whom Prescott...
...cigars used to be Wall Street's symbol, but today they're the stuff that comrades are made of. Soviet U.N. Delegate Nikolai Fedorenlco, 52, lit up his Empresa Consolidada at a World's Fair luncheon last week, puffed a cloud of smoke at his U.S. counterpart, Adlai Stevenson, 64, and chuckled, "It's a Havana, of course, the best. Revolutionary!" Lately, however, Fedorenko has been indulging in a pretty counterrevolutionary bourgeois-capitalist deviation. In the Security Council, he has been seen chomping American chewing gum; and who knows, if word of that gets back...
...would be free to refuse employment to Negroes, but by so doing he would force the price of Negro labor down and give incentive for less biased employers to hire more Negroes. In this context, Professor Friedman is saying that the Negro will receive lower wages than his white counterpart. It must be seen, however, that this is the case today in most industries even under the various forms of FEPC statues already operative in several states, and that the realization of Friedman's suggestion for total withdrawal of governmental jurisdiction in this area would represent no loss of income...
...cheaper jets have allayed much of that fear. Many a president now believes that a rakish new jet is just what his company needs for greater mobility and smarter image. Now the executive jet is well on its way to gaining the acceptance already won by its piston-engine counterpart...
...final alternative, PBH can petition the Corporation to appoint a full time social worker from outside the University. Such an appointment would be unique to Harvard, although in 1960 Yale hired a full time social worker to coordinate Yale's counterpart...