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...boxes, do so just because the shape and shade of the things appeal to them. And still others-maybe the majority-buy conversation pieces that they can add to their collection of comic books and Humphrey Bogart posters, reducing the whole march toward mind expansion to a close-order drill on the old campground...
John J. Finley '68 of Lowell House and Falls Church, Va., manager; David A. Grimes '69 of Quincy House and Greensboro, N.C., student conductor; Gordon H. Sellon Jr., '68 of Dudley House and Belmont, drill master; Wayne S. Barry '69 of Eliot House and Wilmette, III. Also approved assistant managers, Joseph Field '69 of Leverett House and Weston; William C. Horne '69 of Leverett House and Beverly; S. Kent Rawson '69 of Leverett House and Topeka, Kansas; Michael S. Schooler '69 of Lowell House and Rochester, N.Y.; and Robert D. Whittemore '69 of Leverett House and New York...
Those who do get in receive rigorous physical and intellectual training. An enlisted man will find army drill difficult and intense, and boisterous ping pong matches after dinner no less exhausting. In the evening he reads or studies with a small group the works of Mao Tse-tung. Several of the shorter essays have to be memorized, especially those that describe the communist soldier's duties--obey the Party, love the People. That means, he learns, return what you borrow, do favors for the peasants, don't mistreat their daughters...
...Floyd Hall, in Djakarta to talk about the possibilities of a joint operation in the islands with Garuda Airways, the national airline. U.S. Steel is contemplating nickel mining in West Irian, Freeport Sulphur is surveying copper prospects, and no fewer than 19 companies are competing for the right to drill for offshore oil around the big islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo...
...bust of Antonio Coppola, a benefactor of the hospital, through hints in a 19th century inventory, confirmed by minutes of a 1612 meeting at which a blank check was given to Confraternita's treasurer to pay Bernini. Its twin, of Benefactor Antonio Cepparelli, was done a decade later. Drill holes in the eyes heighten their lifelike aspect, and the craggy hand of Coppola that emerges from the cloak, as if from no possible shoulder, adds to the theatrical immediacy of the long lost work. Lavin believes that the Coppola bust was done by Bernini at age 13. Highly improbable...