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...recently sold a 5-ft. South American boa to a family with 2½-year-old girl triplets. Snake-fancying Sophomore Laurie Vitt of Western Washington State College has a python, rattlesnake, tokay gecko and two boas, which he keeps in his room with his tarantulas when his parents entertain. One evening, he was treating the boas to some live white rats when the guests, hearing the squeals, wandered in. "For some reason," says Laurie, "everybody stopped drinking...
Other members of the Visiting Committee questioned the wisdom of permitting undergraduates to entertain women in their bedrooms, insisting that this freedom was not available to most students in their homes...
Accustomed to magazines that only entertain (Life) or sloganeer (Time), Americans have a difficult time classifying the "N.R." Neither "liberal" nor "radical" will do. The appropriate adjective is "civilized," a word alien to this country, used on this side of the Atlantic only as a term of condescension or ridicule. The New Republic is civilized in the French sense of the term: "rendu correct ou elegant." And, because it is civilized, it can civilize those who read it, by stimulating interest in new problems and by fostering perspective in regard to old ones...
...Studies show that air conditioners raise plant efficiency by as much as 20%, and they are such crowd-drawers for stores, hotels and restaurants that some small eateries have more money invested in their cooling system than in all the rest of the place. Even Hong Kong prostitutes now entertain in air-conditioned "entertainment hostels," where climatized clients are said to tarry longer and tip higher...
Although the Dean's Office announced last Fall that it was giving "serious thought" to reducing the number of hours during which men could entertain women in dormitory rooms, no changes have been instituted. After studying infractions of the rules, the Deans apparently decided that careful enforcement, rather than a cutback in parietals, was the way to avoid any possible scandals...