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...result of changes initiated last spring, K-House students no longer have the luxury of door-to-door garbage pickup. The move, instituted by the Kirkland House masters and superintendent, is designed primarily to reduce cluttering in the corridors and to facilitate sweeping and cleanup by custodians, officials said...
Specifically, Pfister announced that door-to-door pickup of trash will be discontinued. Instead, students will be provided with waste baskets and plastic liners, and will empty them in cans outside their entryways. The cans will be serviced twice each...
Other contra groups are not faring so well. The Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE), operating in southern Nicaragua, not only remains estranged from the F.D.N. but is badly split. Eden Pastora Gomez, the swashbuckling ARDE leader who once commanded 2,500 men, has been reduced to door-to-door fund raising in San Jose, Costa Rica's capital. There have been reports of Pastora's followers selling their guns for food. On the Caribbean Coast, an estimated 1,000 Miskito Indian rebels are divided into two rival factions and poorly equipped...
Born in Philadelphia to a door-to-door salesman and his English-born wife, Gloria Rachel Bloom began rebelling in college. As an English honors major at the University of Pennsylvania, she insisted, despite faculty reservations, upon doing her thesis on black Novelists James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. She met a young man in her freshman year, married him as a sophomore, gave birth to a daughter in her junior year and got a divorce before graduating. Allred went on to earn a master's degree in English education at New York University, taught...
...Door-to-door distributors for the weekly Harvard Independent found themselves without work yesterday when a printer's mechanical problems delayed delivery by 24 hours...