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...laundry depot system for freshman dormitories will be discontinued next year, while depots will still be used for linen distribution, Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for business affairs, confirmed last night...
Assembling an Octopus. Moore, who bosses his expanding empire from a foam-rubber bus seat ("It's the best desk chair I've found") in Continental's Dallas head quarters, started out at 18 as a ticket agent in the Little Rock bus depot. In those days the U.S. bus business consisted largely of a patchwork of local companies that seldom traveled more than a few towns down the road. Recalls Moore: "In my first year a man wanted to buy a ticket to Dallas. I told him he couldn't get there...
leader freed last month by the French after five years' imprisonment. For Ben Bella it was truly a homecoming, since he had been born of an Algerian father and Moroccan mother within 15 miles of Oudjda. The camp, formerly a French supply depot, was decorated with rebel flags and banners proclaiming in French and Arabic such long-winded slogans as "The triumph of our revolution demands absolute unity, organized action, solid leadership and well-defined aims." On an inspection of border outposts within gunshot of French positions. Ben Bella, though still pale and out of condition from his long...
...only after several months of prolonged and often bitter negotiation. This year it was only after a great deal of pressure from the House Committees and the Student Council that the HSA agreed to furnish a special committee with financial information. And of course there is the yard linen-depot affair, in which HSA pushed through an essentially administrative decision without informing important members of the Administration, or even the companies involved...
...most had gone for the adventure. "Plenty of lolly [money] and plenty of fun," said a South African masseur who had joined Katanga's army. One adventurer nostalgically recalled a successful campaign against a U.N. supply depot. "We lived like kings on the loot we found there," he says. "A pile of corned beef and 150,000 bottles of beer...