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...nights; but since women are restricted to the ground floor, parietals in the fraternity houses are useful chiefly for the "wild parties" of Dean Monro's famous formulation. In the dormitories, on the other hand, hours run to 7 Sunday through Thursday, 11 Friday, and midnight Saturday, and permissions encompass students' suites as well as downstairs living rooms...
...initial scene is the wedding of Kay Strong, one week after "the group" graduates from Vassar. The final scene is Kay's funeral, seven years later (the original plan was to have the book encompass 20 years). The neatness of this framework is deceptive; the intervening story is not ordered, but chaotic in the extreme...
...company's $596 million annual sales, but Honeywell today is as comfortable in outer space as it is in the basement. It is now the world's largest and most sophisticated manufacturer of automatic control systems, turning out 13,000 products so diverse that they encompass a 600 microswitch and a $3,000,000 electronic data processing system. "We pride ourselves," says a Honeywell executive, "on being able to control damned near anything." Every manned space flight, from Mercury to Dyna-Soar, depends on intricate controls made by Honeywell...
Prof. Howe said that because the 14th Amendment refers specifically to state action, a bill based on its "equal protection" clause would not encompass many instances of discrimination which have nothing to do with state involvement. More importantly, he said, Southern states would be given a chance under such a bill for extended obstructionism. "It is foolish to give them (the Southern states) the opportunity for further delay," Howe declared...
...tour of Boston, on July 7, will leave Harvard at 1:45 p.m. and encompass the Gardner Museum, The Old State House, The Paul Revere Home, and the U.S.S. Constitution (Old Iron-sides). Tickets (at $2.25) and further information is available at Matthews Hall 4. The trip will last for about two and one-half hours...