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...alumnae, and every girl's mother happy. As long as Radcliffe can claim it has some kind of curfew rules--and not talk about their substance--no newspaper with prurient tastes is going to snoop around and find out just how permissive those rules are. Radcliffe's reputation for decorum, at least, will remain intact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ruined Maid II | 5/10/1966 | See Source »

...wants to remain anonymous because that's more fitting with Radcliffe's standards of decorum, she says. Would be suitors don't care, apparently; she's already gotten 12 responses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suitors Reply To Cliffie's Ad For Husband | 4/20/1966 | See Source »

...problem of police brutally and discourtesy is not nearly as acute as it was 30 years ago, Gellhorn said. "Today, the New York and Washington police forces are models of decorum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gellhorn Says Civil Review Boards Are Neither Efficient nor Necessary | 3/31/1966 | See Source »

Possibly in the interests of international decorum, the government did not specify charges, but every Lebanese trader could itemize the likeliest opportunities for a safqa (deal) in the foreign service: peddling diplomatic codes and official reports, for example, or trading in black-market currencies. One confidential dispatch recently turned up in a Cairo newspaper before it reached the foreign office in Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Tiger at the Helm | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Right to Disagree. Labor's monumental decorum was marred only momentarily, when two dozen student pickets infiltrated the meeting to protest against the war in Viet Nam, while Dean Rusk was defending U.S. policy before the convention. George Meany, like any true hero of the barricades, stumped over to the podium and growled: "Will the sergeant at arms remove those kookies from the gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Exeunt Kookies | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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