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...gutters filled with filthy green water. The mother had only two clay pots for cooking, a few plates, no silverware. Candles were the only light at night; the bathroom was a hole in one wall. Wooden tables were used as beds, stacked one atop the other like double-decker berths. The man who kept his family thus imprisoned was Rafael Perez Hernandez, 54, husband and father, by profession a purveyor of homemade rat poison...
Although the renovated rooms will resemble those recently modernized in Thayer North, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, said that a number of additional improvements are contemplated. Among the changes being considered is the installation of couch beds to replace the double-decker type now in many Freshman dormitories...
Other members include Roberta F. Colman '59, of Cambridge; Julie A. Decker '59, of Moors Hall and Brookline; Alison M. Keith '59, of Barnard Hall and Rochester, Minn.; Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Nancy L. Proger '59, of Comstock Hall and Brookline; and Nancy C. Stein '59, of Whitman Hall and Winnetka...
...space left on the Lake Como ferry at Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain...
...Proust used the theories of Philosopher (and Nobel Prizewinner) Henri Bergson in his titanic effort to write the definitive novel of time and memory, so Durrell seeks to base his four-decker work on Einstein's space-time continuum. Justine, Balthazar, and the projected third book, Mountolive, will "interlap, interweave, in a purely spatial relation. Time is stayed. The fourth part alone will represent time and be a true sequel...