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...staff of four during these extra hours: one person at the Mass. Av. entrance (the main entrance would be closed); one at the reference desk; one at the stack entrance, who would also check out books (temporary stack passes would be issued freely during these hours); and a custodian. Using the figure of $4/hr., this amounts to $16/hr. in salaries. Additiional heating costs during the winter would be low, since the library is heated to 60 degrees even when closed, and electricity costs could be kept to a minimum by use of selective lighting. Figuring on total additional costs...
...trade, became a paragrapher by chance. After three years of newspapering in Springfield, Mo., he joined the editorial staff of the Star in 1939, worked at various assignments until the paper's resident paragrapher. the late Clad H. ("Pip") Thompson, retired in 1946. Vaughan replaced Pip as custodian of "Starbeams," a column of paragraphs that has stuck to the Star's editorial page since the paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News's able paragrapher, Harry V. Wade, moved...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, current custodian of the Government's scandalous farm subsidy program, appeared last week before the American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest farm organization, holding its annual convention in Chicago. There Freeman, an outspoken fellow, ran up against the federation's equally outspoken President Charles Shuman. The result: Freeman and Shuman found themselves in complete agreement on one important subject-and in complete disagreement on another...
Crisis Change. Then, last week, there was a different tone, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin blockbuster. East Germany's angry belligerence at the Brandenburg Gate had the incidental effect of propelling Candidate Brandt into the limelight and Candidate Adenauer into the wings. As custodian of the embattled city, Willy Brandt was smack in front of the TV cameras when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. troop reinforcements arrived to bolster West Berliners' morale...
...traditional and up to date; they are caused by the government's Cup of Water movement. To increase the population, it has been decreed that women are like fountains: if anyone is thirsty, he drinks from the nearest one. Mah is peacefully attending to his duties as the custodian of a temple to Mao (formerly a temple to Confucius) when his room is invaded by a Female Old Tree Trunk (party member of long standing) who is pregnant by a local party boss. She announces that Mah is her new Comrade Sweetheart, and that he will be the "honorary...