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...discovered that the Guard had 95 antiaircraft companies armed with old-line 90-mm. guns that were useless against supersonic jet aircraft. And he found that the Guard was loaded down with such excess baggage as laundry companies, bath units, public relations men and special service companies to entertain the troops...
...where they settled ten years ago, because, as Estelle explains, "It was the nicest neighborhood closest to Brooklyn." Social life consists of visiting the family back in Brooklyn, or having perhaps one other couple to dinner. Their circle of friends is small; the Ferkaufs are ungregarious by nature, never entertain anyone from the company in their home, and have never had a party big enough to be catered. On Sunday, the only day he does not work. Gene Ferkauf loves to leg it around Manhattan with Estelle and their three daughters. At home, he reads bestsellers (recent favorite: The Agony...
...Dick Nixon. Just when many politicians expected him to fight Nixon for the nomination, he made a "definite and final" announcement that "I am not, and shall not be, a candidate for the nomination for the presidency." And he added: "Quite obviously, I shall not at any time entertain any thought of accepting nomination to the vice-presidency." The Treaty of Fifth Avenue. That should have been that. But Rocky made himself look foolish and indecisive by refusing to give up hope. After the U-2 incident and the breakup of the Paris summit conference, he thought he saw another...
...gazetteer of U.S. night life, St. Louis has never placed very high. Like Atlanta, Cleveland, Buffalo or Pittsburgh, it has been traditionally an entertain-at-home sort of town, and with the exception of a night at the Symphony or Municipal Opera, most of St. Louis spent its evenings the way much of the rest of the U.S. did: watching television or drinking beer in somebody else's living room...
...this is only a first try, and one hopes for better ones to come. The Gargoyle at least has the good intention of writing Harvard humor and wisely opens its pages to everyone interested in writing for them. If it manages to entertain the Harvard community without being too narrowly topical, it will be a happy addition to the growing number of undergraduate publications...