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...popularity and sound sense of the Tunku, whom Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr describes as "one of the most relaxed, cheerful and modestly friendly cover subjects" he has ever interviewed. Describing one youthful escapade, Tunku commented, "I'm a lazy man." An aide watched in evident distress as Mohr wrote it down. Tunku merely chuckled: "It's too late now." A man so ready to concede his own mistakes, Reporter Mohr concluded, could count on justified pride in many achievements...
...contain any moral overtones. According to this theory, female undergraduates, due to certain physiological characteristics, confronted a more hazardous existence than their male counterparts. The signout system would, therefore, make it easier for housemothers, deans, and police officers to come to the aid of the damsels in distress...
Since this financial distress is multiplied by the seven or eight times one must go through it, the Council for Undergraduate Affairs or the Harvard Student Agencies might do well to explore the feasibility of a non-profit textbook pool...
Dean Monro issued a statement last week after receiving word of the ECAC's decision. He called it "a matter of deep disappointment and distress to us," and praised Kinasewich as "a fine student, a fine gentleman, and a fine sportsman...
...document its story of ladies in distress, the magazine assigned a team of eight women reporters to a kind of undercover investigation. According to their findings, black lingerie is so scarce that salespeople are tired of saying "no" to repeated demands. Supposedly black slips and panties delivered to GUM are only dirty brown. Why are lace trimmings so shoddy? Not enough lace or lacemaking machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered...