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...health, Courant Publisher John R. Reitemeyer suspended Annie for two weeks-"until she stopped preaching." After all, said Reitemeyer, nothing like that could happen in Connecticut, where "you just can't be railroaded" into a mental institution. Reitemeyer was also concerned about the effect on readers: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions, and it might even deter some who need treatment from going into an institution...
...Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows its table setting from Leonardo da Vinci in order not to disturb the public mind with a single fresh conception...
...Harvard's fertile soil. Certainly dining halls, commencement, class marshals, even travelling fellowships will be for both men and women in a few years, and the steps will be taken by the same men who squelched a premature vote this month. And for those who wished only to disturb routine, or tradition, or pomposity, success has been gratifyingly obvious...
...professor, however, is bored with the embalmed birds. They are, after all, of Ptolemaic age, distressingly young for Egypt. But the network of tunnels apparently covers more than a square mile, and Emery intends to explore them thoroughly, no matter how many mummies he must disturb. His goal is the hidden tomb of history's first intellectual, and the mummy of the great Imhotep himself...
Sliding Roof. Most studios look like collections of local airport hangars. Universal City is full of ivy-covered cottages and real grass. Visitors can go through Doris Day's dressing room and peek into her closet, which contains everything but a sign saying Do Not Disturb the Skeletons. Along the tour, they can buy souvenir miniature rubber boulders, which, they are told, are similar to the 5,000,000 standard props in use in the studio complex. They also learn that 800 vehicles are required just to transport people among the 35 sound stages, and the office building...