Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scholars and Nymphets. Today Cornell is the Ivy League's most complex campus. Endowment is up to $150 million; next year's budget is $110 million, more than half from the state and federal governments. With 15 academic units, from a top-drawer liberal arts college to an open-door cow college, Cornell can teach its 11,823 students (one-third girls) anything from archaeology to pomology to sculpture to meat cutting...
...before last season's opening game between Georgia and Alabama. Burnett says he heard the operator call the two men by name, and that when he heard Bryant ask Butts, "Do you have anything for me?" he began taking notes. But he stashed the notes in a bureau drawer and did nothing with them. Alabama, favored by 14 to 17 points, went on to trample Georgia 35-0. Months later. Burnett told a friend of the intercepted phone call, and the story got to Georgia University authorities...
...fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only one girl student here?" Then the students presented him with honorary membership in their student union. "I have a drawer full of honorary degrees, in everything from theology to medicine," said Buber. "But this is the first time I've been made an honorary student. This is a great honor...
...responded last week by naming Lieut. General Louis W. Truman, 54, a bantam, 150-lb. West Pointer (and second cousin of Harry S Truman) as head of an eight-man mission to weigh the U.N.'s arms needs. Seven of the eight are members of a top-drawer planning group called JTF4 (for Joint Task Force 4), set up in 1961 to chart long-range military contingency plans for sub-Saharan Africa. As General Truman flew into Leopoldville, Swedish, Philippine and Italian fighter planes were headed toward the Congo for U.N. use, and 1,800 Indonesian infantrymen...
Since then, working out of its own bureaus in Luxembourg and Brussels, and through a Pan-European chain of correspondents, Agence Europe has continued to pry into Common Market affairs with uncommon energy. One Market official in Luxembourg complains that every time he opens his desk drawer, "out pops an Agence Europe spy." To foil Gazzo and his men, the European bureaucracy runs security checks on its own typists and secretaries, once hired a female acquaintance of Gazzo's as a counterspy. The scheme fell through when the lady loyally peached. When Britain's Common Market mission moved...