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...liquidity of the season, the Kremlin has lifted the midnight liquor curfew, and on New Year's Eve Muscovites can get oiled until a highly reactionary 5 a.m. Hotels, coffeehouses and restaurants (there are no bars as such) are booked solid and have laid on massive spreads ($13.75 a plate at the Moskva restaurant) and lavish shows (seven different dance bands at the Ukraine). For home celebrators, 8,000 tons of fresh fruit and 1,000,000 bottles of Crimean champagne and wine have been shipped to the capital's markets, and a new state catering service called...
Died. William Pels, 48, wry, worldly president of ultra-progressive Bennington College for girls since 1957, who enthusiastically supported such famed Bennington trademarks as the nine-week semester of outside work, the dawn curfew for girls and 6 p.m. quitting time for boys visiting in dormitory rooms, explaining to distraught mothers and skeptical colleagues: "If regulations are too strict, you run your students into automobiles and motels"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...school constitution. On the theory that a college ought to be a model democracy, Pitzer has demolished the sanctity of faculty meetings and invited elected student representatives to take part. A few checks and balances remain, however. Dean Charlotte Elmott recently vetoed a unanimous student vote for a midnight curfew on dormitory visits; conforming to the deadline at all-girl Scripps, the witching hour for Pitzies...
...theater, Judgment at Nuremberg played to a packed house, while Saigon's 1,000-bed Cong Hoa military hospital overflowed with 3,000 war victims. The fashionable French high schools are desperate for teachers to satisfy the demands of wealthy Saigonese who want to enroll their children, and "curfew parties" start at midnight and end at dawn...
Ruleville: 9:00 p.m. curfew placed on the country by Sheriff William I. Hollowell. The ban enforced in Indianola by white men with clubs and revolvers, who drove Negroes off the streets...