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...that Londoners called the area "Eisenhowerplatz" (now "Little America"), the U.S. never got around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably by 1958, and 2) entrust the design to one of the boldest U.S. modern architects, Finnish-born Eero Saarinen...
...Desert Island. What had persuaded such able seamen as Miller and his mate, a salt-encrusted American Indian named Chuck Simpson, to abandon a still sound ship in the open sea and entrust their fates and those of their passengers to the doubtful security of an outboard dinghy and three flimsy life rafts? An island newspaper stoutly proclaimed that pirates had seized the passengers and scuttled the ship for the sake of a thousand pounds reputedly resting in the wallet of one of the passengers. But what pirate worth his salt would jettison a ship as fine as the Joyita...
Council President Allan B. Levin '56, said the plan, which would have staffed Lamont with volunteer freshmen after 10 p.m. was defeated because "the University was unwilling to entrust a six million dollar library to freshmen," and because the reports of the 1958 Union Committee and the council's library committee indicated there might not be sufficient use of Lamont after...
...fulfill Italy's own needs and to save her expensive imports. Oil is not the answer to all of Italy's economic problems, but it is a good place to make a start. The question before Premier Antonio Segni's Cabinet last week was whether to entrust the big job of finding and exploiting the oil to the U.S. companies who have the capital and the experience to do the job, or to leave it in the hands of a state monopoly...
...cremation in advance. Home Affairs Minister Louis J. M. Beel pleaded: "A codicil is a simple note ... 'I want my body to be burned,' date, signature, nothing more . . . One can carry it in his pocket or his wallet, one can put it in his desk. One can entrust it to his relatives or his cremation association . . . What's simpler than making a codicil...